Thursday 19 Mar 2009

20.00, Theatr Gwaun, West Street, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire SA65 9AD; Box Office: 01348 873421

12:08 East of Bucharest

Feature film/Romania/2006/89 min/colour/English subtitles
Written and Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu. Starring Ion Sapdaru, Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban

The whole country watched live on television as angry crowds forced Romanian dictator Ceausescu to flee Bucharest by helicopter. In a quiet town east of the capital, sixteen years since this historic day, the owner of the local TV station invites two guests to share their moments of revolutionary glory. One is an old retiree and sometime Santa Claus, the other a history teacher who has just devoted his entire salary to his drinking debts.

Together they will remember the day when they stormed their town hall calling ‘down with Ceausescu’. But phone-in viewers dispute the claims of the heroes, who may have been boozing in the bar or making Christmas preparations rather than rebelling in the streets.

This is a Fishguard Film Society screening.
Details on www.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/theatrgwaun/ &