Gently Anastasia Was Passing (Duios Anastasia Trecea; 1979, Alexandru Tatos, 100 min, English subtitles)
Sat, Sept 25, 4pm Discussion and Q&A after the screening
Helmut Stern Auditorium, 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor 48109

This drama is set on a border town on the Danube in 1944 in a town occupied by the Germans. There are plenty of collaborators eager to please the Germans. A number of the young men join the partisans which by orders of the Germans are to be killed on sight. When a Serbian partisan is killed and the orders are to have his body thrown into the village, forbidding anyone to bury it - Anastasia refuses to obey the order...

Please join visiting director Dan Popa, American Romanian Festival Executive Director Marian Tanau and Ramona Uritescu-Lombard, an expert in Romanian cinema and lecturer in the German and Comparative Literature departments at UM, for a discussion and Q&A after the film.

Directed by Alexandru Tatos
Written by D. R. Popescu
Produced by Casa de filme 1
Cinematography by Florin Mihailescu
Muzic by Lucian Metianu
Sound by Horea Murgu
Costumes by Svetlana Schiopu
Makeup by Anastasia Savin

Cast:

Anda Onesa and Amza Pelea

Laslo Tarr
Biro Levente
Cristian Ghita
Razvan Onesa
Catalin Ciornei
Ghoerghe Teasca
Daniel Petrescu
Kofalvi Istfan
Gaspar Imola
Dumitru Bordeanu
Adrian Berzescu
Kantor Ernest
Horea Murgu
Andrei Both
Peter Petrescu

Part of the Fourth Annual American Romanian Festival, this event is sponsored by Michigan Arts Council and Cultural Affairs, National Endowment for the Arts, University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Center for Russian and East European Studies, and the School of Music, Theatre and Dance.