Cinema

01|11|07 - 18|11|07 // FILM SERIES

HOMAGE TO LUCIAN PINTILIE

Lucian Pintilie who was born in 1933 is one of the authors who infl uenced the awakening of Rumanian fi lms in the 1960‘s. His fi rst work «Sunday at Six» (1965), a love/spy story was already extremely successful. It was not only his social satire «Reconstruction» (1968) which led to a rift with the Party. After a number of warnings his production of Gogol‘s play «The Government Inspector» was banned. Pintilie then chose to go into exile in Paris but continued his career as a theatre and film director until, in 1990, he was re-naturalised and became director of the Department of Films in the Rumanian Ministry of Cultural Affairs. He also made more films in Rumania.

03|11|07 - 30|11|07 // FILM SERIES

HISTORICAL CINEMATIC GEMS FROM RUMANIA

The film history of Rumania is still a blindspot here, despite the fact that a number of films have won important awards at international festivals. One importantwork in this cinematic cultural heritage is «Forest of the Hanged» (1964). Thanks to the cooperation between the National Film Archive of Romania and the World Cinema Foundation, which was called into life by Martin Scorsese in Cannes this year, this film is being restored. As a sidelight on this rich film history, we shall be showing, among others, the surreal pop fairytale «The White Moor» (1965) by Ion Popescu-Gopo and «The Chase» (1975) by Mircea Daneliuc,who, despite massive resistance from the censors, enriched the film scene in Rumania for decades.

04|11|07 - 15|11|07 // FILM SERIES

REVOLUTION OF 1989 UND ORDINANCE 770

Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica uncover the fury and power of the Rumanianpeople after 24 years of rule by Nicolae Ceauşescu in «Videograms of a Revolution» (1992). The two film makers draw on the archive of the state TV station. It was occupied by demonstrators on the 21st December 1989 for 120 hoursand with the programs they transmitted they established it as a historical site. Florin Iepan also used a great deal of original documentation in «Children of theDecree» (2005) to show the consequences of Decree 770, which Ceauşescu introduced in 1966. The dictator banned abortions with this decree in an attempt to raise the birth rate.

12|11|07 // 18.30 // FILM SERIES // FILMLETS I
19|11|07 // 18.30 // FILM SERIES // FILMLETS II

in the presence of director Corneliu Porumboiu

14|11|07 BIS 28|11|07 // FILM SERIES // THE YOUNG GENERATION OF FILMMAKERS

AT 19|11|07 in the presence of director Corneliu Porumboiu
AT 23|11|07 in the presence of director Cristi Puiu

Cristian Mungiu (*1968), Cristi Puiu (*1967), Corneliu Porumboiu (*1975) and Cristian Nemescu (1979–2006) who unfortunately died far too early, are the young generation of filmmakers who have produced a remarkable abundance of shorts and full-length films. They concern themselves with the fusion of historical conditions and individual longings («California Dreamin’ (Endless)»), illuminate the 1989 revolution from a variety of perspectives («12:08 East of Bucharest», «The Paper will be Blue» (only to bee seen in Zurich)) or grapple, in an original manner, with the social upheaval of the post-Communist era («Occident», «Trafic», «The Death of Mister Lăzărescu», «Humanitarian Aid»).