4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days over the series. In 2009, he released a single film called "Tales from the Golden Age", following "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" in depicting the Ceaușescu era and starring Vlad Ivanov. His next film, "Beyond the Hills" (2012), similarly depicted Romanian extremism, and Mungiu was inspired to make the cinematic adaptation after seeing the stage version in New York while promoting "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days". 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days () is a 2007 Romanian art film with drama and thriller elements, written and directed by
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days distribution rights for 60 countries had been sold. In September 2007, it competed at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. That month, it also screened at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. In its own country, it debuted at the Transilvania International Film Festival in June 2007, where it attracted long queues. With only 50 theatres in Romania, and the lowest rates of theatre attendance in the European Union, a crew on a caravan toured 15 towns without theatres over 30 days for screenings that year. At Transylvania, Mungiu was happy to see that Romanian viewers could comprehend the dark