Anca miruna lazarescu biography of william
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Ceauşescu was a brutal dictator, but he really did make a public speech on August 21, 1968 condemning the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. It was designed to establish his independence from Moscow and garner good PR, both at home and abroad. The speech was certainly a success in terms of image, but it left Romanians traveling as tourists within the Eastern Bloc in rather awkward positions. This is especially true of the German-Romanian Reinholtz family in screenwriter-director Anca Miruna Lazarescu’s semi-autobiographical That Trip We Took with Dad (trailer here),which screens during this year’s Berlin & Beyond in San Francisco.
Medically trained Mihai Reinholtz has not driven his father William and irresponsible younger brother Emil all the way to East Germany to see the sights. He has secretly arranged for his father to have life-saving surgery in a Dresden clinic—the only place where such treatment is available in the Soviet Bloc. Unfortunately, they headed west just as the East German tanks started heading east. When the columns roll into Wenceslas Square, East Germany puts all Warsaw Pact tourists on lock-down, jeopardizing their appointment.
On the plus side, Mihai meets Ulrike von Syberg, a well-heeled West German leftwing activist, who
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013 CIFF – That stripe we took with dad
Tijd: 111 min
Land: Roemenië
Taal: Roemeens, Duits
Ondertiteling: Engels
Cast: ALEX MAĂRGINEANU, RAĂZVAN ENCIU, OVIDIU SCHUMACHER, SUSANNE BORMANN, MANUEL Designer, DORU ANA
Regisseur: Anca Miruna Lazarescu
Releasedatum: 2019-09-04
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That Trip We Took with Dad: Diving into subjective history
- Anca Miruna Lazarescu’s feature debut tells the story of a Romanian family caught up in the political turmoil of 1968
Anca Miruna Lazarescu’s first feature, That Trip We Took with Dad [+see also:
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Lazarescu was born to a German family in Romania and moved to Germany soon after the 1989 Revolution. Her perspective on the events of 1968 that shook all of Europe is deeply personal, as many of the events in the film happened to her father, then a teenager. The film follows 18-year-old Emil Reinholtz (the extremely promising Razvan Enciu, who invites comparison with a young Heath Ledger) an