Closer to the Moon

20142014
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1h 52min

Vera Farmiga in Closer to the Moon (2014)

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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... Read allA 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.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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Awards
- 9 wins & 4 nominations

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Closer to the Moon

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Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, and Marcin Walewski in Closer to the Moon (2014)

Mark Strong and Christian McKay in Closer to the Moon (2014)

Mark Strong, Joe Armstrong, Tim Plester, and Christian McKay in Closer to the Moon (2014)

Mark Strong and Joe Armstrong in Closer to the Moon (2014)

Vera Farmiga, Joe Armstrong, Tim Plester, and Christian McKay in Closer to the Moon (2014)

Vera Farmiga, Joe Armstrong, Tim Plester, and Christian McKay in Closer to the Moon (2014)

Vera Farmiga, Harry Lloyd, Mark Strong, Joe Armstrong, and Tim Plester in Closer to the Moon (2014)

Mark Strong, Joe Armstrong, Tim Plester, and Christian McKay in Closer to the Moon (2014)

Mark Strong in Closer to the Moon (2014)

Mark Strong in Closer to the Moon (2014)

Mark Strong and Monica Barladeanu in Closer to the Moon (2014)

Joe Armstrong, Tim Plester, and Christian McKay in Closer to the Moon (2014)

The Rest is Silence

8.1

The Rest is Silence

Asphalt Tango

8.0

Higher Ground

6.2

6.9 on the Richter Scale

7.4

6.9 on the Richter Scale

È pericoloso sporgersi

7.9

È pericoloso sporgersi

At Middleton

6.5

Boundaries

5.3

Great Communist Bank Robbery

7.0

Great Communist Bank Robbery

Dolce far niente

6.8

Dolce far niente

How About You

6.8

Filantropica

8.5

Henry's Crime

6.0

Bucharest 1959. A spectacular Bank heist has the country in an uproar. In post-war Communist Romania it is an unimaginable slap in the face to the iron fisted authorities. Four men and a woman are arrested, tried, convicted and while waiting for their execution... are forced to star in a propaganda film about the crime. All five protagonists were heroes of the resistance during the Second World War and highly placed members of Romanian society. They clearly knew they would be caught and executed. —Anonymous

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Trivia
Director Nae Caranfil on the historical background and his research: "...usually I don't do very much research. I rely on my imagination but this time, I tried to get every bit of information I could. The best thing I did, in a way, was to get hold of some Israeli Romanian language magazines published in Tel Aviv where they made a whole file over three or four editions of the events with people that were remembering things in very different ways. So, I got very different angles on this story and then, aside from the documentary film [Marele jaf comunist (2004)] made by Alexandru Solomon, I saw another documentary film [Reconstruction (2002)] of which nobody knew in Romania, made by the woman's granddaughter [Irene Lusztig]. She's living in New York and she came to Bucharest in 1999 and made a documentary about her grandmother." [2014]

Quotes
Title Card: During World War II, the anti-Nazi resistance in Romania was mainly organized by the Communist Party.
Title Card: A number of young Jews joined the cause, believing their freedom would come from the Soviet Union.
Title Card: The Red Army didn't free, but enslaved the country, along with the whole Eastern and Central Europe. An iron-fist regime was installed.
Title Card: Former Jewish partisans became part of the governing elite.
Title Card: Their positions started to erode until, by the last years of the 50's, they were being systematically removed from positions of power and influence.
Title Card: Based on a true story.

Connections
Edited from Reconstruction (1959)

Soundtracks
It's Magic
Music by Sammy Cahn
Lyrics by Jule Styne
Performed by Loredana Groza

Top review

6/10

Based on a true story but doesnt look very trueful.

Although Closer To The Moon is based on true events some scenes in the movie just seem not very plausible. Those scenes, that are quite unbelievable and make no sense at all, made this movie lesser good than it should have been. I really doubt the 'gangsters' were that happy in those times. In the end credits you see the actual footage of their propaganda movie and nobody seemed happy there, much more realistic than the whole movie is trying to show. The cast is really top, all actors did a good job with their respective characters, so that was the best thing about this movie and that was what makes it worth watching. Plus the excellent directing from Nae Caranfil, not so much for his writing though. Closer To The Moon isn't bad for a one time viewing.

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Jul 11, 2020

Release date
- April 17, 2015 (United States)
Countries of origin
Language
- English
Also known as
- Ближе к Луне
Filming locations
- Bucharest, Romania
Production companies
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Budget
- €4,400,000 (estimated)

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Runtime
- 1h 52min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1

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