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10 Nov. 2020 / 07:00

"Telefilm-Chisinau", in search of heroes, to the end of Europe

We cannot talk about the cinema after COVID-19 as long as the "Telefilm-Chisinau" team continued to do its job. Despite the pandemic, our colleagues managed to cross all of Europe to reach the westernmost point of the continent, where the actor, director, writer and traveler Boris Cremene was waiting for them. In their adventure, in the middle of the road, their host and hero was Andrei Moşoi, actor at the "Russian Stage" Theater in Berlin.

We cannot talk about the cinema after COVID-19 as long as the "Telefilm-Chisinau" team continued to do its job. Despite the pandemic, our colleagues managed to cross all of Europe to reach the westernmost point of the continent, where the actor, director, writer and traveler Boris Cremene was waiting for them. In their adventure, in the middle of the road, their host and hero was Andrei Moşoi, actor at the "Russian Stage" Theater in Berlin.



If the post-war world had the "Big Four", which guaranteed and ensured world peace, we have the four filmmakers, who want to bring us the story of the actors who changed the cultural life of our country 30 years ago. It's about the movie "Six Characters in Search of a Theater."



On September 5, the "TeleFilm-Chisinau" team set off on a road that would take them to the end of Europe, a path of ten thousand and 500 kilometers. For safety, they traveled by car.



"We had a long journey, we crossed almost all of Europe. We arrived in Lisbon, but until then, we had a filming in Berlin, we are talking about the documentary "Six characters in search of a theater". In the German capital, we met the former actor of the "Eugene Ionesco" Theater Andrei Moşoi. He is now an actor at a Russian theater in Berlin - "Russian Stage". We filmed where he works, but we also went to his home, to the villa, in the suburbs, told us the director, the film producer and the director of "TeleFilm-Chisinau", Mircea Surdu.

After Berlin, the destination was Lisbon. Another character in the documentary, Boris Cremene, was waiting for them there. "We have literally and figuratively reached the end of the earth, the end of Europe, the westernmost point of the continent. There we made some very characteristic videos of Boris Cremene, who is a living traveler," added Mircea Surdu.



In 2020, traveling abroad has become a luxury, and we all read and watch daily news about an unprecedented situation around the world. But our adventure was much more "non-adventure" than we expected. The press wrote about everything that was happening in Europe, closed borders, checks after checks, but to our surprise it was not so complicated, because we were very prepared. After crossing the border with Romania, we continued our path quite easily, open borders, and we did not have problems related to the pandemic," said the producer and deputy director of "TeleFilm-Chisinau" Leonid Melnic.

However, the trip was "nervous" especially when we started. The current situation is not a simple one for travel and business trips. In Europe, people have a more responsible attitude than we do. I've noticed this everywhere. In Spain, for example, it was not allowed to walk on the street without a mask. We are talking about the beginning of September, before the sudden worsening of the situation. People have become more careful about hygiene everywhere. Despite everything, we had very warm meetings with the actors. We were the ones "coming from home" and somehow they were eager for it," remarked Eugeniu Popovici, image director.



"It is difficult for me not to leave the country at least once a year and this trip was exactly the dose of energy I needed. It's tiring to stay in the car for days on end, but the material we managed to film was worth these thousands of kilometers. I have been in the TeleFilm Chisinau team for less than a year, so I have something to learn from my colleagues in any filming. Either it is about Mr. Surdu's communication skills, Mr. Melnic's organizational skills or Eugen's energy and creativity," said the cameraman Roman Gaţcan.

Through the film "Six characters in search of a theater", we try to tell a story of the golden generation of the "Eugene Ionesco" Theater. The heroes of the film are the actors who formed the foundation of the theater, who are now scattered around the world, and some of them no longer practice. "We try to follow the fate of the creative man, who willingly or unwillingly parted from the theatrical calling he has. We try to build in images the history of the culture of independent Moldova through these characters. In addition to Boris Cremene and Andrei Moşoi, the heroes of our film are the actor, director and artistic director of the theater, Petru Vutcărău, the actress Ala Menşicov and the actress and director Nelly Cozaru, who remained in the Republic of Moldova. The director of the "Regina Maria" Theater in Oradea, Elvira Rîmbu, and the actress Elena Chiobaş, who is based in Ireland," mentioned Mircea Surdu.

"The film will be about the history of culture through the prism of the Eugen Ionesco Theater. This theater appeared at the beginning of the independence years, it was a bomb theater, it was a theater where you could not find tickets, it was a theater that reformed the cultural life in Chisinau. We are trying to see how things have changed in the last three decades in terms of the history of the Eugene Ionesco Theater, which was receptive to everything that happens in society, it was a theater that reacted to any political event," added Leonid Melnic.

The adventure of ten thousand kilometers of the "TeleFilm-Chisinau" team ended 20 days later, on September 25, also in Chisinau, where they started. However, film work continues. The documentary "Six characters in search of a theater" or maybe "seven", because, according to the director, the name will change according to the number of protagonists in the film, will be released in February 2021.
 

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