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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Cristian Mungiu, the first Romanian to win the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, says his country's recent movie output helped him win the award.
Mungiu's low-budget "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," a harrowing film about illegal abortion in communist-era Romania, beat 21 movies by well-known directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Ethan and Joel Coen to win this year's Palme d'Or.
"I don't know why this (success) is happening here and now," Mungiu told reporters Thursday. "If it had been presented in 2001 or 2002, I think there would have been a tiny chance it would have won."
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