2014 marked 25 years since the Berlin Well fall, the West opened up, and Germany was finally united as a whole again. Yet over two decades on, how life under that oppressive regime functioned continues to fascinate filmmakers and storytellers, with numerous television series and films dedicated to that very subject. But perhaps less well documented on the big screen has been what Romanians endured under the Communist rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu. And writer/director Andrei Gruzsniczki tackles it head on in his quietly complex "Quod Erat Demonstrandum," which concerns itself with the absurdities of bureaucracy, and how a system of repression isn't guided by black-and-white rules, but a moral and ethical gray area in which both the authorities and citizens must decide how comfortably corrupt they're willing to be to save their soul. For Sorin Parvu (Sorin Leoveanu), mathematics is a lifeline from an existence otherwise defined by living at home with his nosy mother.
- 12/10/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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