What a Wonderful World (Romanian: Ce Lume Minunată) is a 2014 Moldovan film directed and written by Anatol Durbală, set during the April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests.[1][2][3]
| What a Wonderful World | |
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| Romanian | Ce Lume Minunată |
| Directed by | Anatol Durbală |
| Written by | Anatol Durbală |
| Produced by | Cumatrenco Sergiu |
| Starring | Igor Babiac Sergiu Bitca Igor Caras-Romanov Ana Daud |
| Cinematography | Ivan Grincenco |
| Music by | Roman Bordei |
Production company | YOUBESC |
| Distributed by | AO Asociatia Consumatorilor de Arta |
Release date |
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Running time | 73 minutes |
| Country | Moldova |
| Languages | Romanian, English |
Plot
editA 22-year-old Moldovan comes home from Boston, Massachusetts and finds himself in the midst of a major protest.[4]
Reception
editThe jury wishes to acknowledge a director whose feature début shows much promise with an urgency and intensity in its storytelling out of a country with virtually no film industry since its independence in 1991. A deceptively spare take on a wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time scenario, the film deftly weaves events of a violent populist uprising by the young generation whose time has come to display their rage and mistrust of a corrupt and backward-looking government, leading to a shocking climax for its unwitting protagonist.[5]
— Warsaw Film Festival award citation
At the 2014 Warsaw Film Festival, Durbală won the FIPRESCI Prize.[6] At the 2015 Independent Film Festival Boston it won Best Director, Best Foreign Film and Best Writing awards.[7] Controversially, the film was not submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, despite Moldova submitting films in the two previous years; this was presumed to be because the political content was embarrassing to the Moldovan government.[8]
References
edit- ^ "What a Wonderful World / Ce Lume Minunata". FilmFreeway.
- ^ "Move East Movie – What a Wonderful World | Different Sounds".
- ^ "Anatol Durbală | Teatrul Național "Mihai Eminescu"". www.tnme.md.
- ^ "Ce Lume Minunată - Crossing Europe". www.crossingeurope.at.
- ^ "FIPRESCI - Festival Reports - Warsaw 2014". fipresci.hegenauer.co.uk.
- ^ "The System Is Broken: What a Wonderful World".
- ^ "Ce lume minunata - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The 2015 Oscars and the Curious Case of the Missing Moldovans: Anatol Durbală's What a Wonderful World". January 15, 2016.
External links
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