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- Title
FILMUL ARTISTIC CA DOCUMENT ISTORIC. CAZUL ROȘIA MONTANĂ.
- Authors
Grancea, Mihaela
- Abstract
Mircea Veroiu and Dan Pița, two débutant directors aimed in 1970 to produce a fulllength movie of three hours and reconstitute as true as possible Ion Agârbiceanu's world and be as closer as possible to the writer's intentions. Only the human behavior in the world of gold was refered to within the original texts. Dialogues overhelmed the narrative parts and descriptions were summary at all. I do therefore consider that the priest-writer's short stories were but artistic provocations for the two débtant directors. For me, the screenings they did are more interesting than the literary sources, more moving, with a larger universal meaning. Mircea Veroiu and Dan Pița produced two movies of first rank for the European moving picture: Nunta de piatră/The Rocky Wedding, 1973, and Duhul aurului/The Gold's Spirit, 1974. The exceptional historic restoring, a tragic existentialism, plasticity of images and subliminal messages referring to the effects of encroachment the rule make the two films, The Rocky Wedding and The Gold's Spirit be a single whole. Seducessed by "the local athmosphere" that preserved up to the beginning of the '70s its intercultural identity and heritage, the producers of movies insisted on the socio-cultural and historical context of the former mountainous town. So, Roșia Montană, a rural locality during the communist times, became the place to shooting. The two directors reconstituted sequences of rural life in a mining Transylvanian townlet. From its structure and existence points of view, the townlet was a representative one for other mining localities in Transylvania and the mountainous Banat (see: Anina). They tried to re-imagine the social, ethno-cultural, and geo-symbolical and anthropological space of this locality in the Apuseni Mountains, a space represented first of all by the age-old settlement of Roșia Montană; the level of locality preservation excluded the need to make scenaries, in Buftea Film Studio, in order to reproduce sequences of the townlet existence. As in post-communist age Roșia Montană has become an abandoned place, a phantom-like one, and the heritage there is sentenced to loss, my approach insists on "place of memory" characteristic of the movies of Mircea Veroiu and Dan Pița.
- Publication
Banatica, 2017, Vol 27, Issue 1, p791
- ISSN
1222-0612
- Publication type
Article