The Tube with a Hat
Very early in the morning, Marian, a seven-year-old boy from a small and poor Romanian village, wakes up his father to persuade him to go to the city in order to fix their old television set. Despite the bad weather, the father finally agrees. Marian and his father start the trip, carrying the television, hoping that in the city they will find Bichescu, a specialist who will fix their problem.
- Romania
- 2006, 23 min
- Director: Radu Jude
- Director of photography: Marius Panduru
- Editor: Cătălin Cristuţiu
- Screenplay: Florin Lăzărescu
- Cast: Marian Bratu, Gabriel Spahiu, Natalia Calin, Alexandru Georgescu, Costica Draganescu
- Art Director: Cristina Barbu
- Producer: Ada Solomon
- Production: Hi Film Productions
Radu Jude
Radu Jude is a Romanian director and screenwriter. He studied filmmaking in Bucharest and started his career as an assistant director. In 2006, he made the short film The Tube with a Hat, which won more than fifty international awards. Radu’s feature debut The Happiest Girl in the World (2009) was shown at more than fifty international film festivals. He followed with works such as Everybody in Our Family (2012), Aferim! (2015), and Scarred Hearts (2016), winning multiple awards: the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2015 Berlinale, the Special Jury Prize in Locarno in 2016, and an EFA nomination for Best Scriptwriter. The international premiere of The Dead Nation in Locarno in 2017 marked his debut in documentary film. "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" (2018) won the Crystal Globe for Best Film and the Label Europa Cinema Prize in Karlovy Vary in 2018. Uppercase Print and The Exit of the Trains (co-directed with Adrian Cioflâncă) premiered at the Berlinale Forum in 2020, and Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn received the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 2021.