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Closer to the Moon ( Romanian: Mai aproape de lună) is a 2013 comedy-drama film written and directed by Nae Caranfil, and starring Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, Harry Lloyd, Joe Armstrong, Tim Plester, Christian McKay, and Anton Lesser. [3] Based on the true story of the Ioanid Gang, it is one of the most expensive productions in Romanian cinema.
Apr 16, 2015 · April 16, 2015. “Closer to the Moon,” a fictionalized tale about a weird chapter in Romanian history, tries hard to slap a smiley face on a calamity. In 1959, a group of formerly true ...
- Nae Caranfil
Apr 17, 2015 · Closer to the Moon: Directed by Nae Caranfil. With Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, Harry Lloyd, Anton Lesser. A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Nae Caranfil
- 2015-04-17
Nae Caranfil’s Closer to the Moon is a Romanian film that tells the story of the Eastern Bloc’s most famous bank heist. Carried out by six Jewish intellectuals in 1959, the robbery has since ...
That sentiment just as aptly applies to Closer to the Moon’s writer-director, Nae Caranfil, who oddly forgoes the abundant elegiac aspects of his film’s factual material for a tone approaching the ebullient. Though the film is based on the true story of the Ioanid Gang, Jewish intellectuals who executed a daring bank heist within communist ...
Dec 7, 2013 · Closer to the Moon: Film Review. Vera Farmiga stars in a title revolving around convicted bank robbers who are forced to reenact their crimes for a propaganda film. By THR Staff. December 7, 2013 ...
A band of Romanian freedom fighters pull the crime of the century in this gripping heist film based on an incredible true story. Bucharest, 1959: with anti-Semitism on the rise, a group of Jewish WWII resistance members, led by a police inspector (The Imitation Game’s Mark Strong) and an academic (Academy Award-nominee Vera Farmiga), reteam for an audacious act of political agitation.
