Catalogue des films de « Alexandru Solomon »

A dead monk’s gaze is hypnotizing the masses, becomes a very profitable brand and is about to be sanctified by the Romanian church. Following in Arsenie’s footsteps, we embark on a fictionalized pilgrimage, that leads us – with humour and...

On the oriental side of the Black Sea, a small territory blessed by nature but destroyed by the hand of men, wishes to become a country: Abkhazia. Here, a scientific institute is based where, for about 90 years now, scientists use monkeys in their...

Quatre styles et quatre expériences de vie, mais un seul pays : la Roumanie. Pour Mircea Cértérescu, l’éternel adolescent des lettres roumaines, "vivre ici c’est comme si on nageait dans une piscine remplie d’acide sulfurique". Norman...

Imagine Ceausescu would come back 20 years after he was overthrown and executed. That he would start comparing the state in which he left the country for us, with the state of today. Imagine the former Communist dictator would understand it is...

This is a love and hate story built around something no one can see or touch: radio waves. During the 80’s, Radio Free Europe was the secret relief and confidant of its Romanian listeners. The Radio was Ceausescu’s most important enemy; he...

In 1959, in Romania, six former members of the Nomenklatura and the secret police organise a hold up of the National Bank. After their arrest, the state forces them to trial, broadcast live on television, they are sentenced to death and...

"Duo for Paoloncello and Petronome" Paul Celan, the great German poet, spent his youth in Bukovina and Bucharest. This documentary is centred on a poetic dialogue between Celan and his friend and writer – Petre Solomon on the background of these...