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
Around the World in 80 Days (Michael Palin book) Kong". This reflects the fact that the whole trip was a kind of "race against time" effort, and being aware of how many days have passed and how many days are left before the magic number 80 arrives adds extra excitement. An interesting aspect of this trip is that almost 3/4 of the time (59 days) was spent getting around the first half of the globe (Europe, Middle East, Asia, Pacific to the International Date Line) and only 1/4 of the time (21 days) for the last half of the trip (rest of the Pacific, U.S.A., Atlantic). This is also