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Alexandru Belc esplora l'amore adolescenziale nella Romania comunista in Metronom

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- Il film selezionato a Un Certain Regard ricrea la Bucarest del 1970

Alexandru Belc esplora l'amore adolescenziale nella Romania comunista in Metronom
Şerban Lazarovici e Mara Bugarin in Metronom

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After directing the Gopo-nominated feature-length documentary Cinema, mon amour [+leggi anche:
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in 2015, Romanian director Alexandru Belc is now readying his fiction debut, Metronom [+leggi anche:
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, a rare local production set in the 1970s. The film is being produced by Cătălin Mitulescu and Ruxandra Slotea, through Strada Film International, and co-produced by Martine Vdalenc and Emmanuel Quillet, through Midralgar (France), and Viorel Chesaru, through Chainsaw Europe (Romania). Earlier this month, the movie was selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard (see the news).

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The screenplay, written by Belc himself, focuses on two secondary-school students, Ana (newcomer Mara Bugarin) and Sorin (Şerban Lazarovici, chiefly known for his main role in Radu Jude’s Uppercase Print [+leggi anche:
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), who share a love story in Bucharest at the beginning of the 1970s. When Sorin’s parents are allowed to leave Romania, the two youngsters fear that their days of happiness are numbered, but little do they know that soon, they will have to face the feared Secret Police. The film’s title comes from a very popular radio programme of the era, Metronom, which was first broadcast on Radio România, and then, after the show’s anchor Cornel Chiriac fled Romania, on Radio Free Europe.

The budget amounts to just over €1 million. The project received support from the Romanian National Film Center. Metronom was shot over 20 days in May and June last year, with Tudor Vladimir Panduru serving as DoP. Supporting parts are played by Vlad Ivanov, Mara Vicol, Mihai Călin and Andreea Bibiri.

We asked producer Cătălin Mitulescu if Bucharest still has places that look the same now as they did in the 1970s, and he said that the capital “had fascinating places, truly expressive – all you have to do is search for them”. He also praised the work of art director Bogdan Ionescu, “who has a passion for that era”. The producer explained that Metronom paid more for the rights to songs from bands and singers such as The Doors than it did for hiring the entire team who worked on the film.

Belc said that Metronom started off as research into Cornel Chiriac and what his programme meant for youngsters in the 1970s. “Gradually, I discovered the stories of those who wrote letters to him after discovering freedom in the music that Cornel broadcast on the radio, and who were later persecuted on account of those letters. I searched for stories of those on the brink of coming of age who still lived under the false impression that they were free, who were still able to hope, not yet touched by the communist ‘hydra’. Betrayal and compromise would only come a bit later,” the director explained.

Metronom is being handled internationally by Pyramide Films. The national release will most probably take place this autumn.

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