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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
- Cast
- Vera FARMIGA, Mark STRONG, Harry LLOYD
- 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.