First released in 2006, it was also nominated the same year for the Semaine de la critique section of the 59th Cannes Film Festival.

[4] Being Cristian Nemescu's last completed project, the film stars Mădălina Ghițescu as Marilena and Gabriel Huian as Andrei.

[5] In the end, the project evolved to an unusual length of 45 minutes;[6] the film's approach also turned from comedy to teenage love.

[7] Reception from the public was favorable – it impressed through its unitary view and the way the screenplay, picture and sound combine together into a new and organic way, by using innovative, unusual techniques.

[7] In a suburb of Bucharest, a 13-year-old boy,[2] Andrei (Gabriel Huian), together with some of his friends, watches the prostitutes' show every night from a rooftop and how they are being taken by drivers.

The boy falls in love with one of the girls, called Marilena (Mădălina Ghițescu [ro]), and finds out that he needs a decent sum of money in order to approach her.

[3] During development, however, the film received new funds,[8] though still modest ones, thus the actors and a part of the team accepted to work for free.

Being in Rahova, we arrived in a place where there were some blocks painted by Mayor Marian Vanghelie, and behind those there was a ghetto – yes, that's the term – but it was a very picturesque place, which was good for what we wanted.For a long period of time the project was entitled Trolley Blues; Cristian Nemescu gave up this title, worrying that there might be a large discrepancy between the equivocal name and the actual, very direct content of the movie.

Another scene in which multiple layers of sound were used was the radio show heard in Giani's car about the breeding of Memestra brassicae moths.

[4] Very well received by the different categories of the public, from critics to publishers, and simple spectators, Corneliu Porumboiu's film '12:08 East of Bucharest' [...] Just as well was received, especially by young people, Cristian Nemescu's movie, 'Marilena from P7' (a melancholic ghetto tragedy, with a stolen trolleybus... for reaching the girl's heart, who is a gentle and honest mistress, the story of initiation and the price to pay for wanting to find out faster, what comes with age).Cristian Nemescu's 'Marilena from P7' is a medium-length film, which at Cannes was viewed by a hall full of people, and which was intensely applauded.

A shocking story about a ghetto from the outskirts of Bucharest (where, for example, an old man, scourged by life, slick and misogynist, plants his little garden on the rooftop of a block), with a kid that would do anything - steal his parents' whole salary or even a trolleybus, for his beloved - and a lively prostitute from P7.

Children actors with an ingenuous talent, and dialogs that fit together perfectly and sound natural, a splendid picture, a big hearted pimp played by Andi Vasluianu, all in one a portion of highest quality cinematography.The Romanian premiere took place on June 4, 2006 at the Transylvania International Film Festival, in Cluj-Napoca.

Following the accident, the Romanian public, as well as those from abroad, offered wider attention to the productions of the two cineasts, including Marilena from P7, their first notable success.

[15] Marilena from P7 was seen by journalists as an attempt to attract attention to various social phenomena (prostitution, the living conditions in low-income Bucharest neighborhoods, etc.

The unusual thing about her is that, despite the life she has, she trusts people.Marilena from P7 also attracted the critics' attention due to its use of explicit verbal and visual content.

Cristian Nemescu said that this kind of scenes were a necessarily element for the realism of the movie, declaring himself a partisan of explicit content.

In his dreams, the differences between him and Marilena are partially removed, either by lowering the rooftop on which the boy stands to ground level or by debarking the girl from a breast-shaped UFO that scares the neighbors away.