CLOSER TO THE MOON

By Nae CARANFIL

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Drama - Completed 2014


    • Year of production
    • 2014
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • ROMANIA, USA, ITALY, POLAND
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 110 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Nae CARANFIL
    • Writer(s)
    • Nae CARANFIL
    • Producer(s)
    • Alessandro LEONE, Denis FRIEDMAN, Michael FITZGERALD
    • Synopsis
    • Bucharest 1959. Five high-ranking Jewish members of the Romanian Communist party and heroes of the resistance plan and carry out a spectacular bank robbery. They divert the attention of onlookers by pretending to be shooting a movie. They are arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to death but not before being forced to reenact the robbery in a fake propaganda film. An opportunity they immediately seize to turn their absurd predicament into a comedy. This is a true story.