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ALIYAH DADA

By Oana GIURGIU

Jewish - Completed 2014

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Jewish, Historical, Documentary
- Countries
- ROMANIA
- Languages
- ROMANIAN
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- Oana GIURGIU
- Synopsis
- A non-Jew Romanian, raised under the supreme Communist truth, starts a journey to discover the reality behind the Romanian Jews aliyah (the return to the Holy Land). The story will unfold through more than 100 years of history: the adventure of the first settlers that abandoned their modern life in Eastern Europe at the end of 19th century, for surviving in a primitive way in the hostile Palestine, then the dark secrets of the Second World War in Romania and the Romanian communists’ secret deals for "trading" the Romanian Jews to Israel. The film pays a visual tribute to the Dadaist movement, initiated by two members of the Romanian Jewish community, Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco.