7.0
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Drama, Comedy • 2021 • 93 min
The Campaign (2021)
The Campaign (2021)
Overview
The Campaign is a 2021 Romanian satirical drama following a corrupt politician who exploits a rural farmer's hospitality to fake grassroots support during his EU campaign. The film leans traditional as it reflects the country's cultural and social context, with no overt progressive themes or DEI casting choices, and focuses its critique on political corruption rather than personal identity.
Starring Cast
Ovidiu Crisan • Ion Sapdaru • Ioana Chitu
Where to watch
Prime VideoRating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Mixed
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
7.0
Overview
The Campaign is a 2021 Romanian satirical drama following a corrupt politician who exploits a rural farmer's hospitality to fake grassroots support during his EU campaign. The film leans traditional as it reflects the country's cultural and social context, with no overt progressive themes or DEI casting choices, and focuses its critique on political corruption rather than personal identity.
Starring Cast
Ovidiu Crisan • Ion Sapdaru • Ioana Chitu
Where to watch
Prime VideoDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
The Campaign satirizes a Romanian politician's European Parliament bid through publicity stunts and false promises that exploit local residents, showing corruption spreading from leaders to the community while voters and officials remain trapped in their social positions.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: High
The movie features traditional casting consistent with its Romanian production and setting, without visible multi-ethnic diversity or explicit recasting of roles for DEI purposes. Its narrative focuses on political corruption, and while it portrays a corrupt male figure, this critique is directed at his actions rather than his traditional identity.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: Medium
The film's narrative primarily focuses on a local political campaign, with no significant or central portrayal of family structures, roles, or values. Family content, if present, appears to be peripheral and not a driving force of the story, thus offering no meaningful basis for evaluation.
Christianity: Negative
Confidence: High
The film, a satire on local politics, depicts a candidate cynically promising to build a road to the church to win votes. The narrative portrays the religious institution and its adherents as susceptible to manipulation and hypocrisy for political gain, highlighting the problematic exploitation of faith within the political sphere.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The film 'The Campaign' does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses exclusively on a political election campaign in a Romanian village, exploring themes of corruption, power, and manipulation within that context.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The film 'The Campaign, 2021' does not feature any identifiable transgender characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a political campaign in a Romanian town, exploring themes of corruption and a candidate's past without incorporating transsexual identities or related plotlines.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film is an original story centered on a local election in Romania. Its characters are newly created for this specific narrative and are not adaptations of pre-existing canonical figures, historical individuals, or established legacy characters from prior works.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film is an original production featuring characters created specifically for this story. There are no pre-existing source materials, historical figures, or prior adaptations from which characters' races could have been established and subsequently altered.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: High
Not depicted in the film.
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