Spruce Forest
2025•1h 15m•7.7•Released
DocumentaryHistoryDrama
The Spruce Forest explores one of the darkest pages in Romanian history. Inspired by the drama of Fântâna Albă on April 1, 1941, the film reconstructs the fate of a Romanian community in Bessarabia, massacred in a desperate attempt to find refuge from the Soviet occupation. The testimony of a survivor of this genocide becomes the backdrop against which archival images and his wife's memories of Siberia are superimposed, in a dizzying game of mirrors that questions the notion of historical truth and reveals forgotten traumas with potentially devastating consequences in the present.
Director
Tudor Giurgiu
Writer
Tudor Giurgiu
Languages
Romanian
Cast
Mircea Andreescu
Coca Bloos
Ionuţ Caras
Production
Producer
Tudor Giurgiu
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