The Second Game

A deceptively simple set-up: the director and his father watch a 1988 football match which the father refereed, their commentary accompanying the original television images in real time. A Bucharest derby between the country’s leading teams, Dinamo and Steaua, taking place in heavy snow, one year before the revolution that toppled Ceaușescu.

• Radical Minimalism
• Meta-Documentary
• Communist Era Romania
• Father-Son Dialogue
• Football Commentary
• Historical Reflection
• Unedited Archival Footage
• Slow Cinema
• Political Subtext