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Amintiri de pe Frontul de Est

Memories from the Eastern Front
Berlinale Shorts 2022
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A photo album bears silent witness to history. Handsomely bound and carefully labelled, it traces the path of the 6th Regiment of the Romanian army in the war years of 1941 and 1942. Romania had allied itself with Nazi Germany to fight the Soviet army. This film soberly dissects the perspective of these war photographs. Making use of quotations from historical sources, it puts these banal images of everyday military life in a larger context, supplementing that which has been deliberately left out.
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by Radu Jude (Written and Directed by), Adrian Cioflâncă (Written and Directed by) Romania 2022 Without dialogue 30' Colour World premiere | Documentary form

Crew

Written and Directed by Radu Jude, Adrian Cioflâncă
Cinematography Marius Panduru
Editing Cătălin Cristuțiu
Producer Ada Solomon

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Radu Jude

Born in Bucharest, Romania in 1977. After taking a film degree at the city’s Media University, he began working as an assistant director before directing his first short film in 2006. His debut feature The Happiest Girl in the World screened in the Forum and received worldwide attention. He won the Silver Bear for Best Director with Aferim! at the 2015 Berlinale. His films Uppercase Print and The Exit of the Trains premiered in the Forum. In 2021, he won the Golden Bear with Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn and was a member of the International Jury of the Berlinale in 2023.

Filmography

2006 Lampa cu caciula (The Tube with a Hat); short film 2009 Cea mai fericită fată din lume (The Happiest Girl in the World) 2012 Toată lumea din familia noastra (Everybody in Our Family) 2015 Aferim! 2016 Inimi cicatrizate (Scarred Hearts) 2018 Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari (I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians) 2020 Tipografic majuscul (Uppercase Print) · Ieşirea trenurilor din gară (The Exit of the Trains); co-director: Adrian Cioflâncă 2021 Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn) 2020 The Potemkinists (Potemkinistii); short film 2023 Nu aștepta prea mult de la sfârșitul lumii (Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World) 2024 Sleep #2 · Opt Ilustrate din lumea ideală (Eight Postcards from Utopia); co-director: Christian Ferencz-Flatz 2025 Kontinental '25

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025

Adrian Cioflâncă

© Adrian Cioflâncă

Born in Piatra Neamt, Romania in 1974. His work as a historian focuses chiefly on the Holocaust, communism and political violence. He is director of the Wilhelm Filderman Center for the Study of Jewish History in Romania and has been a consultant on several films and theatre plays. His film The Exit of the Trains had its world premiere at the 2020 Berlinale. Like his previous work, he also made Amintiri de pe Frontul de Est in cooperation with the Romanian director Radu Jude.

Filmography

2020 Ieșirea trenurilor din gară (The Exit of the Trains); co-director: Radu Jude 2022 Amintiri de pe Frontul de Est (Memories from the Eastern Front); short film, co-director: Radu Jude

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2022