The idea of ​​the leadership of the newly restored TVR Cultural to broadcast the film on the evening of December 22, the day when 33 years have passed since the victory of the Revolution White gate.

Coincidentally, of course, the film aired only a day after liberal leader Alina Gorgiou’s inept appeal, culmination! President of the Senate of Romania, so that the revolutionaries forget their traumas in the name of moving forward.

2023 is coming, said an uninspired politician who deserves a doctorate in all kinds of political bullshit, 2023 will be tough and a concerted effort is needed. It is likely, Ms. Gorghiu said, that it will take the efforts of the former guards, who still receive special pensions today, even after the former president and a former security official named Traian Besescu, known as Petrov, adopted communist beliefs.

Film tape white gate, directed by Nicolae Merginianu, means painful memories and an incredibly relevant call not to forget one of the most painful pages in the history of Romania. The communist terror, as it manifested itself between 1949-1953, when the regime of Gheorghe Georgiou-Deja, heeded the appeals of Stalin (here I recall the moment described by Marin Preda in the novel The most beloved among earthlings), decided to start work on the Danube-Black Sea canal. However, their termination did not mean the end of terror, as the party, Dezh and the security shifted the responsibility for the failure to some so-called saboteurs.

It is to be hoped that Senator Gorgiou, otherwise, as I said, a data expert with a stick, saw the film and realized the magnitude of the error.

The script was created by Oana Cahal and Nicolae Merginianu and is based on several important books of testimony. Author Adrian Oprescu (Cousin Alexander), Florin Konstantin Pavlovich (Torture for everyone), or Theohar Mihadash (On Mount Eval). The film begins and ends with an image of a painting by Arseniy Bok, in which the baby Jesus appears dressed in sackcloth.

Very young students Adrian (Christian Botha), Ninel (Sergiu Bucur), Anuka (Madalina), who once, around 1949-1950, tried to escape from the communist terror, also participated in the zege. And if Anuka managed to escape, she reached Paris and perhaps even sang at the Opera Garnier (the musical leitmotif of the film is the famous aria lived inArt from longing The Puccini boys failed at the White Gate labor camp. Along with several hundreds of thousands of other people who were supposed to build the singing and glorifying Canal, they were actually doomed to destruction. Because of cold, malnutrition, hunger, terror, because of all kinds of physical punishment. By the way, one of the key scenes in the film is the one in which the prisoners stand in line to receive their weekly rations. The arrival of prisoner trains, grueling labor, punishment, solitary confinement, the brutality of guards of all stripes are other key events. Which violate a certain, probably intentional, linearity of the story.

Adrian (whose mental weakness is played wonderfully by Christian Botha) and Ninel (the exquisite acting of Sergio Bucur is worth noting) live their ordeals next to ordinary people, convicted even for small or imaginary sins, next to former informants for unknown reasons. grace or by people who believed in the power of the word. Like Professor Panayt (Yon Besoyu), lawyer (Evhen Christian Motriyuk) or poet (Marius Turdianu). The latter is the one who keeps his texts written in Morse code and hidden in a sweater. Truly, without exaggeration and caricatures, the tormentors appear, played by Tudor Smolyanu, Marius Kivu, Constantin Florescu (the author of the unforgettable portrait of the camp commandant) and – surprisingly! – Raresh Florin Stoyka. A young actor who successfully copes with specific difficulties counter employmentwith

On the other hand, one of the important advantages of the film is that the director Nikolai Merginyan entrusted many roles to actors who were taking their first steps in the profession at the time of the casting of the production. It is worth noting separately Bohdan Nychifor, who is excellent in the role of the Priest. Actually, in the role of Arseniy Bok.

White gate, a black-and-white film, a black-and-white that cannot help but make you think of the colors of the sky, marked, as I said, by a certain linearity. the linearity of the hell created here on Earth by some who have falsely called themselves human. Read the entire article and comment on it at contributors.ro