The feature-length documentary
The Exit of the Trains / Ieșirea trenurilor din gară, directed by
Radu Jude and the historian Adrian Cioflâncă, will have the world premiere on February 26, during the International Film Festival in Berlin, where it is selected in the Forum competition section.
The premiere will take place at CinemaxX 4, from 19:00, local time; the film is screened also on February 27 and 29 and on March 1.
On February 27, it will be screened at Delphi Filmpalast, from 15:00, on February 29 it will be presented at Cubix, from 10:00 and on March 1, the screening is scheduled at CinemaxX 6, from 18:30.
The 70th edition of the Berlinale will take place from February 20 to March 1, 2020.
The Exit of the Trains /
Ieșirea trenurilor din gară is an editing film made entirely of archive photos and documents referring to the Iași Progrom from June 1941. The first part of the film is made of photos of the victims, with declarations and confessions about their fate accompanying them on the soundtrack.. The second part, which is shorter, represents a composite of Progrom photos, some of them are unique.
The screenplay and directing are signed by Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă, the sound design is signed by
Dana Bunescu and the editing by de
Cătălin Cristuțiu. The producers are
Ada Solomon,
Carla Fotea and Radu Jude and the associate producer is Adrian Cioflâncă.
The Exit of the Trains /
Ieșirea trenurilor din gară is a microfilm and nomada.solo production and it will have the premiere in the Romanian cinemas later this autumn.
Radu Jude will be part of the Berlinale Forum also with the feature film
Uppercase Print / Tipografic Majuscul. And he was also selected for the Berlinale Co-Production Market, one of the most important markets for film projects, which brings together producers, sales agents, distributors and financers from all over the world, with the feature film
project
Sleepwalkers / Somnambulii.
Adrian Cioflâncă is the director of the Wilhelm Filderman Center for the Study of Jewish History in Romania and a member of the National Council College for the Study of the Security Archives and a scientific researcher at the A.D.Xenopol History Institute of the Romanian Academy. He was a member in the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania (2003-2004) and an expert in the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania, contributing to the Final Reports of the two commissions.
Since 2005, he has been a member in the Romania`s delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. He was a Tziporah Wiesel Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington (2009). From 2010 to 2012, he was a department director at the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile. He edited 7 volumes, in collaboration; the most recent one is “Recent History told differently. Cultural perspectives” (Andi Mihalache, Adrian Cioflâncă, coordinators, Iaşi, “Al. I Cuza” University Publishing House, 2013). He published more studies in different fields: the history of Holocaust, history of Communism, violence, politics, cultural history and art theory. He was a consultant and documentarist for more films and theatre shows.
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