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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 |
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Running time | 73 minutes |
Country | Moldova |
Languages | Romanian, English |
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]
A 22-year-old Moldovan comes home from Boston, Massachusetts and finds himself in the midst of a major protest. [4]
The 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]
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 |
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]
A 22-year-old Moldovan comes home from Boston, Massachusetts and finds himself in the midst of a major protest. [4]
The 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]