What a Wonderful World
RomanianCe Lume Minunată
Directed byAnatol Durbală
Written byAnatol Durbală
Produced byCumatrenco Sergiu
StarringIgor Babiac
Sergiu Bitca
Igor Caras-Romanov
Ana Daud
CinematographyIvan Grincenco
Music byRoman Bordei
Production
company
YOUBESC
Distributed byAO Asociatia Consumatorilor de Arta
Release date
  • 4 April 2014 (2014-04-04)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryMoldova
LanguagesRomanian, English

What a Wonderful World (Romanian: Ce Lume Minunată) is a 2014 Moldovan film directed and written by Anatol Durbală, set during the April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests.[1][2][3]

Plot

A 22-year-old Moldovan comes home from Boston, Massachusetts and finds himself in the midst of a major protest.[4]

Reception

The jury wishes to acknowledge a director whose feature début shows much promise with an urgency and intensity in its storytelling out of a country with virtually no film industry since its independence in 1991. A deceptively spare take on a wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time scenario, the film deftly weaves events of a violent populist uprising by the young generation whose time has come to display their rage and mistrust of a corrupt and backward-looking government, leading to a shocking climax for its unwitting protagonist.[5]

— Warsaw Film Festival award citation

At the 2014 Warsaw Film Festival, Durbală won the FIPRESCI Prize.[6] At the 2015 Independent Film Festival Boston it won Best Director, Best Foreign Film and Best Writing awards.[7] Controversially, the film was not submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, despite Moldova submitting films in the two previous years; this was presumed to be because the political content was embarrassing to the Moldovan government.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "What a Wonderful World / Ce Lume Minunata". FilmFreeway.
  2. ↑ "Move East Movie – What a Wonderful World | Different Sounds".
  3. ↑ "Anatol Durbală | Teatrul Național "Mihai Eminescu"". www.tnme.md.
  4. ↑ "Ce Lume Minunată - Crossing Europe". www.crossingeurope.at.
  5. ↑ "FIPRESCI - Festival Reports - Warsaw 2014". fipresci.hegenauer.co.uk.
  6. ↑ "The System Is Broken: What a Wonderful World".
  7. ↑ "Ce lume minunata - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
  8. ↑ "The 2015 Oscars and the Curious Case of the Missing Moldovans: Anatol Durbală's What a Wonderful World". January 15, 2016.
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