International Film Festival "Conflict and Reconciliation in the Central-Eastern European Cinema" which was organized by UN Office in Armenia, by EU Delegation and by different European embassies, is in motion. On March 13 Romanian embassy to Armenia organized a movie screening in the framework of the festival. The event was attended by Crina Prunariu, Ambassador of Romania to the Republic of Armenia, Traian Hristea, the head of EU Delegation in Armenia and other guests.

The film “Gruber’s Journey” was the Romanian contribution to the international film festival and was screened in Red Hall II of the Moscow cinema. The movie covered the sensitive topic of conflict and concerned the problem of Jewish people in the north of Moldova during World War II. It described the journey of Curzio Malaparte, the Italian writer, in search of Jewish doctor Josef Gruber. Curzio is incapacitated by a severe allergy and his only chance of recovery is to find a doctor Gruber. All his attempts to find him are unsuccessful. While looking for him, Curzio discovers that in Iasi, several days prior to his arrival, a violent anti-Semitic pogrom took place and that a large number of the Jewish citizens of Iasi were deported by train and that Dr Gruber may be among them. During his journey he confronts indifference, rudeness and the desire by the Romanian authorities to hide something relating to the deportation of the Iasi Jews. After losing his hope to be recovered he surprisingly founds the Jewish doctor. Fortunately he was not among other thousands of people which were deported.  

The guests and the invitees liked the movie and expressed only good feedbacks concerning both the scenario and the choice of the film.

 

“Gruber's Journey is a movie based on real historic events and it perfectly describes some of the events happening during WWII and the way Jewish people were treated during those times. I really enjoyed the movie not only because of the plot, or the great performance of the actors, but also for a number of languages used in it”, says Inga Mkhitaryan, one of the visitors of screening, who was also present at other movie screenings in the framework of this festival.

We want to remind that other four movies included in the festival will be screened during next four weeks on Wednesdays. It is free of charge and is open for general public.

 

Here is the list of the films:

 

February 13, 20:00 - "Three Stories of Galicia" (USA)   Blue Hall

(Russian subtitles and dubbing)

Feb 20, 20:30 - “Lidice” (Czech Republic)

Feb 27, 20:30 - “Roza” (Poland)

March 6, 20:30 - “After the End of the World” (Bulgaria)

March 13, 20:30 - “Gruber's journey” (Romania)

March 20, 20:30 - “Firecrosser” (Ukraine)

March 27, 20:30 - “Before the Rain” (Macedonia)

April 3, 20:30 - “Merry Christmas” (Germany)

April 10, 20:30 - “Rescuers” (USA) (Russian subtitles)

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