FEDERATIA PATRONATELOR DIN INDUSTRIILE CREATIVE (FEPIC)

Description

The origins of Romanian flm can be traced back to more than a century ago, when the flm making technology (starting with that of the Lumière brothers) had reached Romania soon after its invention. Nevertheless, the Romanian art flm debuted at the beginning of the second decade of the 20th century. For a long time, fnancial and political circumstances made flm production hard especially between 1911 and 1948, but that did not hinder artists such as Aristide Demetriade and Grigore Brezeanu from showcasing their talent through their work “The independence of Romania”in the early 1910s. Nor did it stop Jean Georgescu from rendering famous the cinematic version of I.L. Caragiale’s play, “A stormy night”, in the early 1940s.The political situation in the country after the late 1940s impelled the art of flm to escape into fantasy or resume to subtle attacks on the regime, either approach becoming remarkable through vision. After the1989 revolution, there seems to be a distinctive surge towar