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A Fascinating Trickle
Romanian and Moldovan cinema at the 9th Cottbus film festival
Andrew J Horton
The standard measure of what sort of health a country's cinema industry is in is taken by the measure of how many films it produces. However, Mihai Poiata, director of the Vice General Director of the Moldovan National Centre of Cinematography, joked at the Cottbus film festival that the correct measure for his country's output was how many years it took to make a film. Echoing his thoughts, film-maker Tudor Tartaru joked that the process of getting his films made was actually more interesting than the film itself.
Indeed, while film-makers in countries like the Czech Republic and Poland whinge about the number of films that are made each year and then squander the few opportunities they get on sentimental pap or gung-ho action, directors in the East European Romance countries are truly bearing the
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The first hard-paste porcelain manufactory in Europe, located in the city of Meissen, was established in 1710 due to discoveries in porcelain production made by Saxon mathematician and physicist Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus (1661-1708), which were put into practice by the royal court alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682-1718
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1897-1939
The beginnings of Moldovan cinema are difficult to trace, owing largely to the divergent cinematic histories of the left- and right-bank regions, a division which continues today. From 1897 to 1927, film production in Moldova was sparse and remains mostly undocumented. After Bessarabia, now part of Moldova’s current territorial boundaries, was absorbed into Romania in 1918, the USSR created the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (MASSR) on the left bank of the Dniester River in 1924. This newly created Soviet republic included nation taken from Ukraine as well as modern-day Transnistria, a breakaway region that remains unrecognized by any UN-member nations. At that time, the USSR attempted to modernize and Sovietize the MASSR, which included cryrillicizing the Romanian language, industrializing the region, and educating many of the MASSR’s bio professionals at the Odessa State College of filmteknik in neighboring Ukraine.
Most of the films produced bygd th