Off the Beaten Track

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Ireland, Romania 2011; Documentary; 35mm; 87 minutes; 52 minutes TV-version; aspect ratio 1:1,85; Dolby SRD; original language Romanian; available with English subtitles

CREDITS

DIRECTOR	Dieter Auner
WRITER	Dieter Auner
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY	Nora Agapi
CAMERA	Dieter Auner & Alex Brendea
EDITOR	Roxana Malaroiu, Alexandru Radu & Catalin Cristutiu
MUSIC	Eugen Aloisiu Nucu Pandrea
PRODUCER	Siún Ní Raghallaigh, Cristian Mungiu & Dieter Auner
PRODUCTION COMPANY	Ikandi Productions & Mobra Films

SYNOPSIS

OFF THE BEATEN TRACK chronicles one year in the life of Albin and his family of shepherds in the North of Transylvania. In direct cinema style, this documentary follows their day to day routines, and their struggle to adapt to a new world where traditions are gradually replaced by modern values. Since joining the EU, Romania has been facing, like several other Eastern European countries, the pressure of modern values, introducing in farmer's lives the cruel notion of competition, the temptation of migrating to the higher salaries abroad, and the marginalisation of locally produced food against industrial products.