Emilia Dobrin

the movie tells the story of a young doctor who has to fight the narrow-mindedness of the director-general of the hospital. An open manifest against bureaucracy, mediocrity and corruption, the movie excels at something that wasn't a common place in Romanian cinema of that time: genuineness and spontaneity. (scalisto.blogspot.com)

Sick Animals (Romanian: Animale bolnave) is a 1970 Romanian film directed by Nicolae Breban. It was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. (wikipedia.org)

Three sequences, which could have formed separate stories, are linked together by one film crew at work on two different jobs.

It's Christmas Eve in a small mountain train station and no train is coming since all the tracks are blocked with snow. Four people are waiting for a train that doesn't show up. They don't know each other, how long it's going to take or if they will ever reach their destinations. But as the hours pass, Madalina, Cristi, Ozana, Alex share the absurd, the despair and the hope. Because they are accidentally stuck here. Because no one knows when it will end. And because it's Christmas

It is the 20th of December, 1989, and Ceaușescu’s regime is on its last legs. The army violently suppresses an uprising in Timișoara, but any news that reaches Bucharest is scant and sanitised. Six people find themselves in the eye of the storm without realising it. (europeanfilmacademy.org)