I read it at the press conference for the release of the film Arrest, screenwriter and director Andriy Kohn denied any direct connection between the story of his character Dino Neagu and engineer Gheorghe Ursu. Andrii Cohn argued his point of view, saying that Ursu was a real anti-communist dissident (something that could not be said about Dina Neaga), and that his hero would have died under different circumstances than those in which the engineer gave his life.

Last weeks I watched the film (made in 2019) under the influence of a sense of rebellion caused by the despicable verdict of the CCJ, which not only exposes the clean slate of the guards Hodis and Parvulescu, but more seriously rehabilitates Bezpeka itself and wipes the criminal nature with the sponge of communism.

It’s true, Dinu Nyagu, the film’s character, was not directly opposed to communism. He did not go out on the streets, did not announce a hunger strike, did not keep an intimate diary in which he criticized the ruling family, did not insult Ceausescu, did not send letters of protest. to Free Europe. He listened to it almost like everyone else. And he discussed with his friends what he heard on short waves. Let me remind you in the context that REL in Romanian had the largest audience among all Western news media that speak not only to Romania, but also to the whole of Eastern Europe. What, as follows from the book Red horizons Former Security General Ion Mihai Pacepa, and Georgiou Dezh and Nicolae Ceausescu were simply obsessed with what was being said from the station’s microphones and the truth that thus reached the ears of Romanians. And not only. Hence the February 1981 terrorist attack ordered by Carlos, the attack that mistakenly destroyed the headquarters of the Czech department when the Romanian section was the target, hence the brutal beating of Monica Lovinescu in 1978, hence the likely July 1981 attack against Emil Georgescu, hence the suspicious deaths directed by Noel Bernard (1981) and Vlad Georgescu (1988), hence the trap packages sent to some station employees. Hence the crowd of informers. Among them is Konstantin Beletanu, who has just been honored with great and irresponsible pomp by the Academy and blessed by the BOR. The two institutions certainly relapsed yesterday when one of the most miserable members of the Security staff passed away.

Dinu Neagu was, as you call it, a wealthy man. Being an architect, he obviously had a well above average monetary income. He owned a relatively luxurious house, a family heirloom, where weekly gatherings of friends took place. Meetings where what was said was discussed Free Europe.

All this attracted the attention of the SBU. Who arrested the architect on the beach for practicing nudism. An attack on communist morality. Towards ethics and socialist justice.

As you claim, Dinu Nyagu was also detained on the basis of a pretext. About the production. An offender was also placed in his cell. Some Vali. It is easy to compare with Marian Klita. Who was given the task of literally investigating the architect, subjecting him to tough (informal) interrogations, which supplemented the interrogations of alleged lawmen. Vali’s main mission was to obtain a guilty plea. It doesn’t matter which one. Architect Nyagu had to admit and write in black and white that he was guilty. A rather notable sequence in the movie where this happens, Vali was a mix of Jim and Jeff. He was both gentle and tough. But he always tried to assert his superiority in relation to Nyagu. The emphasis of this ratio is perfectly conveyed by the performance of Julian Postelnik (Vali) and Alexander Papadopol. Vali behaves in the cell like at home. He is sure of this almost forever. He immediately abandons the architect, because he unmistakably addresses him as you. Vali is friends, communicates as equals with policemen and security. He only fears those with high degrees. Maybe also security people. He is obsessed with an officer named Ion Ion. Good in the role for a few minutes, in which the wonderful actor Khatazi Andras appears. In a fit of rage, Vari kills the architect, whose health has been deteriorating. After he and the colony staff beat him earlier.

No one punished Vali’s crime. Pesemne, the fact was something natural. As a result, it did not cause the slightest emotion among those who evacuated the body. The banality of evil.

Connected or not with the tragedy of the engineer Gheorghe Ursu, the story of Arrest presented in the most realistic way. First of all, we are dealing with the realism of situations. So, exactly as we see it in the film, the militia was in the communist period. Secondly, with the realism of the situation. An ominous combination of green and white in the wall painting, a small sink in the cell, bunk beds. Thirdly, with dialogues. A sense of proportion should also be observed. Nothing thickened in the play of two wonderful actors, on whose shoulders, as they say, the weight of the earth rests. Alexander Papadopol and Yulian Postelnik. Read the whole article and comment on Contributors.ro