12:08 East of Bucharest [A fost sau n-a fost?]

Activity Type: 
Film
Date: 
Friday, February 4, 2011 - 19:00 to 20:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
104 David Lawrence
Cost: 
Free

(Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 2006. 89 min.)

The first Romanian film to tackle the 1989 revolution head-on, 12:08 is a bitter but genuinely funny satire that makes jabs both at Romanian media culture and the unwillingness of Romanian society to come to terms with its own unsettled conscience.

UCIS Unit: 
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Non-University Sponsors: 
Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia