The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Romanian Moartea domnului Lzrescu is a 2005 Romanian dark comedy film by director Cristi Puiu. In the film an old man Ioan Fiscuteanu is carried by an ambulance from hospital to hospital all night long, as doctors keep refusing to treat him and send him away.

Dante Remus Lzrescu Ioan Fiscuteanu, a cranky retired engineer, lives alone as a widower with his three cats in a Bucharest apartment. In the grip of extreme pain, Lzrescu calls for an ambulance, but when none arrives, he asks for his neighbors help. Not having the medicine Lzrescu wants, the neighbors give him some pills for his nausea. A neighbor reveals that Lzrescu is a heavy drinker. His neighbor helps Lzrescu back to his apartment and to bed. They call again for an ambulance.When the ambulance finally arrives, the nurse, Mioara Luminia Gheorghiu, dispels the idea that Lzrescus ulcer surgery over a decade before could cause this pain. While taking a patient history, she suspects that Lzrescu has colon cancer. After informing his sister, who lives in a different city, that the condition could be serious and she should visit Lzrescu in the hospital, the nurse decides to get him to a hospital. His sister makes arrangements to come the following day his only child, a daughter, lives in Toronto. ........

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