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is a kaleidoscopic allegory of all of Western civilization
Mungiu’s film deconstructs a churchgoing community’s Christian hospitality
His approach is effective: he spurns cheap judgments about superficial faith
His Romanian villagers are forbearing and capable of a deeply appealing intimacy; they are also distastefully self-pitying
The result is a film that combines patience and irony in equal measures
Mungiu’s social realism calls us to accompany his characters in all their human
Mungiu has created a successful formula by pulling true-to-life events
the actual village in Romania where the 2020 incident took place
While Mungiu portrays one of Transylvania’s ethnically mixed villages
in reality Ditrău is an ethnic Hungarian enclave
I conducted cultural anthropological research in a town not far from Ditrău
and I discovered during my visits to the village that few Romanians live there
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Romanian authorities are investigating a case of incitement to hatred and discrimination after 350 villagers gathered to protest against the employment of two Sri Lankan workers at a local bakery
The two bakers were hired legally through a recruitment agency at a bread factory in Ditrau
But some of the village's 5,000 inhabitants say they are afraid migrants will endanger the community's safety and cultural traditions
"Let's pretend other entrepreneurs are hiring ..
six foreign workers in our village," a blonde woman told the crowd on Monday
these six will bring their families and after four or five more years
we will find ourselves surrounded by black people."
We are not afraid of the two Sri Lankan men
an MP for the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians living in Romania
"I didn't notice xenophobic tendencies at this gathering," he said
"It looks more like a conflict between the factory owners and the locals."
"The owner of the bakery is paying less money to all workers
sometimes they work 24 hours per day," a village resident told local media
The Romanian National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD) filed a complaint for incitement to hatred and discrimination
called for tolerance and condemned discriminatory attitudes in Ditrau
The Sri Lankan Embassy in Bucharest contacted the bakery to check on the two workers' living conditions in the area and to provide them consular assistance
Romania's Labour Minister Violeta Alexandru also requested checks to be carried out at the bakery
"What surprises me is the attitude of the local community regarding the fact that two people want to work here," she said
"Maybe they forget that many Romanians are working abroad and they could be in danger of being treated in the same way?"
Tends of thousands of Romanians have left the country in recent years to find work
The factory said it wouldn't give in to local pressure or dismiss its Sri Lankan employees
public anger may force the two to move to another village