Undoubtedly, the tragic figure of lawyer Avram Yanka entered the public consciousness as a right Craișorul Montilor, was subjected, starting from 1948, to repeated perspective revisions. It is determined by the path of communist historiography, that is, what the late historian Vlad Georgescu called historical frontnow there were Romanian revolutions of 1848 in Romanian countries.

For reasons that are easy to understand, c Balchescu, In Camil Petrescu’s play of 1948, the folkloristic vision of the hero was also connected with the prohibition not to talk too much about what was called euphemistically, disagreements with Kossuth and other Hungarian revolutionaries. During the nationalist wave of the 70s and 80s of the last century, the vision changed radically. It is known that for totalitarian regimes, right or left, history is something like a rubber band. Example, Revolutionary movement in Moldovawhich failed due to unfavorable weather conditions, was elevated to the rank of a revolution, there was talk of the unity of the Romanian revolutions since 1848, therefore the disagreements of Avram Janka from Belchesu were patriotically silenced, and in what was called fun The revolution of social and national liberation, anti-fascist and anti-imperialist, which would be completed by the act of August 23. Naturally, this was also assumed by the communists.

Therefore, Avram Jancu now appears in a completely different way in the play of the same name by Mircea Miku, played for the absolute premiere on the stage of the National Theater in Cluj-Napoca, or in the film of Mircea Moldovan, Burning mountainssince 1980. The year was spent in Bucharest International Congress of Historical Sciences and in which the Communists decreed that exactly 2,050 years had passed since the establishment of the centralized Dak state led by Burebista. The role of Janku was played by Vlad Radescu.

A certain post-revolutionary aversion to history, which is hard to deny, is largely due to the destructiveness of what Vlad Georgescu himself identified in Politics and history. The case of the Romanian communists “stories of parastas”, the failure of what was called national cinematic epiclaunched by party order in 1963 along with the film Tudor Director Lucian Bratu caused a sharp decline in the appetite for historical films after 1989. That is why the decision of the young director Theo Thorne, who together with Alex Molico also signs the script, based mainly on the classic monograph, the historian Silvio Dragomir, the producers Alexandru Popa and Alin Pank, actors by profession, to invest their money in a completely independent production (that is, without financing from CNC or T), as well as a young talented actor. In the film, Horiya Fedorka makes his film debut Avram Janku against the empire, seems to me worthy of all praise. So it’s true. Horiya Fedorka physically resembles Avram Yanka, but this similarity is not his only advantage. An actor is a master of a role, he has strength, expressiveness, he convinces with his deed, word, and look.

now, Avram Janku against the empire this is what is called o documentary drama. This is both an artistic film and a film with an assumed scientific basis. It is provided in this way by three teachers – prof. Dr. Mihai Drechin, Prof. Dr. Sorin Shiposh and lecturer Dr. Radu Romanasu is from the Faculty of History of the University of Oradea.

We see Avram Janku and Gatwani face to face, playing a metaphorical game of chess and clashing. Suddenly one of the three consulting professors appears, teaching and demonstrating in lavish detail an idea called historical truth, so that it can then be illustrated artistically. There is also a narrator in the person of the actor Damian Victor Oancea, who up to a certain point also expresses the historical truth and who later interprets Avram Yanka in the last years of his life. Tortured, sick, refusing the tempting offers of Franz Joseph, rejected by his own parents, placed in the house of the priest Mechelaru (Alin Punch) and honored by the community in death. First of all, because of the voice of a decent peasant performed by Sandu Popa. To be honest, I have a hard time understanding the reason behind this change. Firstly, because I believe that Horiya Fedorka could have played Avram Yanka just as well in the last years of his life. Secondly, because. this substitution, that is, the coincidence between the narrator and the character, inevitably leads to the induction of a subconscious note of subjectivity in the story of the narrator. I don’t think it was. Also, Damian Victor Oansea’s performance is believable. _Read the entire article and comment on Contributors.ro