Bucharest 1959. Five high-ranking Jewish members of the Romanian Communist party and heroes of the resistance plan and carry out a spectacular bank robbery, pretending to be shooting a movie. They are arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to death, but not before being forced to reenact the robbery in a fake propaganda film. An opportunity they immediately seize to turn their absurd predicament into a comedy. Based on a true story.
Closer to the Moon
2013
18 years
110 min.
Fiction
Romania, USA, Italy, Poland
Colorido
Nae Caranfil
Nae Caranfil
Marius Panduru
Catalin Cristutiu, Larry Madaras, Roberto Silvi
Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, Harry Lloyd
Michael Fitzgerald, Ugo Tucci
Agresywna Banda, Denis Friedman Productions, Mandragora Movies
Laurent Couson
Celluloid Dreams
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