- Occupation
Producer, Director - Country
Romania
Giurgiu Tudor
Great Communist Bank Robbery
In 1959, in Romania, six former members of the nomenclature and the Romanian secret police organized a heist of the National Bank. After they were arrested, the state forced them to play themselves in a film reconstructing the crime and the investigation. At the end of their trial, filmed live, they are sentenced to death and executed. A month later, the "Reconstruction" was released and became a sensation throughout the county. Today, Alexandru Solomon retraces this incredible story.
Weddings, Musics and Videotapes
A 52-minute "behind-the-scenes" insight of the Romanian wedding industry, with cameramen, photographers and singers from all around the country in the spotlight. Their life stories, their editing styles, their hands-onapproach, know-how and, of course, their performances on weddings, mixed up in a shortcut-style film.
Bird's Way
"Bird's Way" is a creative documentary, a magic realistic tale that guides us to a remote Old Believers‘ village in the Danube Delta, Romania - following the route of migrant birds. The protagonist of the film is the Old Believer community itself. Once fugitives, excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1666, Old Believers found refuge in the wild Delta where they could preserve old rituals, Russian customs and their sacred language. Today no one is left to read the sacred texts, not a priests to lead religious life. Their last 'reader', Artiom, tells us the destiny of Old Believers as laid out in the Book...
Children of Uranium
After working in the mines for decades, the survivors are there even in their dreams: in the uranium mine. However, in reality, in Băiţa Plai nothing resembles what once was. The settlement is ailing. From the labourers of those times, few are alive. The once nice blocks are but a ruin. The people live by collecting mushrooms and selling them abroad. Because "who gives you a job, all sick and irradiated?" The radiation level is high, the houses are double afflicted: from both the mine and the construction materials taken from the area. There is ore everywhere: locals can find pieces in the road dust, the children play in soil with a radiation level much above the allowed threshold...
In 1959, in Romania, six former members of the nomenclature and the Romanian secret police organized a heist of the National Bank. After they were arrested, the state forced them to play themselves in a film reconstructing the crime and the investigation. At the end of their trial, filmed live, they are sentenced to death and executed. A month later, the "Reconstruction" was released and became a sensation throughout the county. Today, Alexandru Solomon retraces this incredible story.
Weddings, Musics and Videotapes
A 52-minute "behind-the-scenes" insight of the Romanian wedding industry, with cameramen, photographers and singers from all around the country in the spotlight. Their life stories, their editing styles, their hands-onapproach, know-how and, of course, their performances on weddings, mixed up in a shortcut-style film.
Bird's Way
"Bird's Way" is a creative documentary, a magic realistic tale that guides us to a remote Old Believers‘ village in the Danube Delta, Romania - following the route of migrant birds. The protagonist of the film is the Old Believer community itself. Once fugitives, excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1666, Old Believers found refuge in the wild Delta where they could preserve old rituals, Russian customs and their sacred language. Today no one is left to read the sacred texts, not a priests to lead religious life. Their last 'reader', Artiom, tells us the destiny of Old Believers as laid out in the Book...
Children of Uranium
After working in the mines for decades, the survivors are there even in their dreams: in the uranium mine. However, in reality, in Băiţa Plai nothing resembles what once was. The settlement is ailing. From the labourers of those times, few are alive. The once nice blocks are but a ruin. The people live by collecting mushrooms and selling them abroad. Because "who gives you a job, all sick and irradiated?" The radiation level is high, the houses are double afflicted: from both the mine and the construction materials taken from the area. There is ore everywhere: locals can find pieces in the road dust, the children play in soil with a radiation level much above the allowed threshold...
8th of March
A derelict coal mine, a tramway depot, a small ready-made clothing workshop of a former fashion house, a dairy factory, and a world of women who lived their youth in communism. In capitalism, they work in difficult conditions but they do not complain. Their simple and humane stories form a complicated historical puzzle. Routine, frustration, the fear that they may become expendable and could lose their jobs make these women resist heroically and live their destinies like beasts of burden. They had dreams and ideals once. Now they have but one wish: to live long enough to enjoy their retirement. Historical dramas are not always performed at a big scale. Worlds collapse and there are collateral victims. During communism, the 8th of March was the high day when women were celebrated as representatives of the working class.
A derelict coal mine, a tramway depot, a small ready-made clothing workshop of a former fashion house, a dairy factory, and a world of women who lived their youth in communism. In capitalism, they work in difficult conditions but they do not complain. Their simple and humane stories form a complicated historical puzzle. Routine, frustration, the fear that they may become expendable and could lose their jobs make these women resist heroically and live their destinies like beasts of burden. They had dreams and ideals once. Now they have but one wish: to live long enough to enjoy their retirement. Historical dramas are not always performed at a big scale. Worlds collapse and there are collateral victims. During communism, the 8th of March was the high day when women were celebrated as representatives of the working class.
Tudor Giurgiu - Romanian Producer, Film DirectorDirected feature films (Love Sick), documentaries (Music, Weddings, Videos) etc. DIRECTOR:Birds Way 56’– creative documentary, Libra Film, Romania, 2009, Director and D.o.p. 3Weddings – Elena Leo 27’ – documentary, Campfilm, Hungary, 2009, Dir. and D.o.p., A Chance (Az esély) 56’ – social documentary, Titania Master Pro, Hungary, 2007, Dir. And D.o.p. IN DEVELOPMENT:Russia’s (Long) Lost Children – feature documentary, Uruguay-Russia, in developmentMirrorland – creative documentary, Hungary, in development DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:The Gunyas’ – experimental documentary, Dir. Astrid Bussink, Holland, in postproduction.“Roma 7 Up” – social documentary, Dir. Eszter Hajdú, Hungary, in production.Concealed Years – Lesbian history in Hungary during communism – feature documentary, Dir. Mária Takacs, Hungary 2009.The Csangos – documentary, Dir. Ibolya Fekete, Hungary, 2006Budapest to Gettysburg – documentary, Dir. Jake Boritt, U.S., 2006. “Tabló” – fiction, Dir. Gábor Dettre Hungary, Second Unit D.o.p. 2006. The Angelmakers – documentary, Dir. Astrid Bussink, Holland-UK 2005.
In 2000 he directed the documentary Hausmeister (about the German community still living in Transylvania), awarded in several international film festivals. His short Popcorn Story was selected for the 2002 Berlinale. Producer of Great Communist Bank Robbery, a coproduction with Les Films D’Ici (France). Founder and President of the Transylvania Int’l Film Festival. His debut feature Love Sick was selected in Panorama section of 2006 Berlinale. Between 2005-2007, Tudor Giurgiu served as General Director of Romanian National Television (TVR). In 2008, he directed for HBO the documentary Weddings, Music and Videotapes, and produced Cross Dates by Anca Damian, first ever Romanian-Finnish coproduction. He also co-produced Fanny Ardant’s first film as a director, Ashes and Blood, shot in Romania and presented in the official program of Cannes 2009. Among its last productions are: Katalin Varga - selected in 2009 Berlinale Competition and awarded with a Silver Bear, Kino Caravan – world premiere in 2009 Pusan IFF, and the most recent “The Mission of the HR Manager”, by Eran Riklis (awarded at Locarno 2010 with Grand Plaza Award).
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