50 years ago precisely, in May 1966, the Romanian cinema was on the winners list of the Cannes International Film Festival with the film
The Uprising, whose director,
Mircea Mureșan, received the “Opera Prima” award given by a jury presided by the gorgeous Sophia Loren. (A double similarity is that the same Sophia Loren is
the guest of honour of the Transilvania Film Festival in Cluj this year!). In the Cannes program, the film adaptation of Liviu Rebreanu`s novel had been given a more commercial name,
L'Hiver en flames, which means “Winter in Flames”. On the red carpet, the director was accompanied by
Ion Besoiu, the actor who played the part of Miron Iuga; Ion Besoiu was one of Mircea Mureșan`s fetish actors, who would be by his side his entire career.
How was Cannes back then? How were we back then? What did this award mean? You`ll find out the answers in the interview that Mircea Mureșan gave us with such loquacity, warmth and humour, breaking the time barrier.
