| 词条 | Reconstruction (2001 film) |
| 释义 |
| name = Reconstruction | image = Reconstruction (2001 film) DVD cover.jpg | image_size = | caption = | director = Irene Lusztig | producer = | writer = | narrator = | starring = | music = | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|2001}} | runtime = 90 minutes | country = United Kingdom United States | language = English, Hebrew, French and Romanian with subtitles | budget = }} Reconstruction is a 2001 documentary made by Irene Lusztig that investigates the Ioanid Gang bank heist committed in 1959 in Communist Romania. The film focuses on Monica Sevianu, Lusztig's grandmother, and the only female involved in the heist. The documentary gets its name from a propaganda film that was made by the Romanian government three years after the robbery was committed. The original Reconstruction was a strange blend of documentary and fiction, where the criminals played themselves in a crime-film whose plot was driven by clues that self-congratulatory detectives pieced together. The propaganda film was only screened to journalists and high-ranking Communist officials before being buried beneath government files. Lusztig managed to find a copy and incorporates clips into her documentary. SummaryExploring her dark family secret, Lusztig blends Romania's history with her personal history. Modern footage of Bucharest, news clips from the postwar era, and personal family interviews are compiled in order to make sense of her grandmother's criminal behavior. But, unlike a typical crime-thriller, the real-life criminal is complicated and can't be fully understood from a few pieces of evidence and an extorted confession. By 1959 it was clear that the utopia communism had promised Romania was not going to be a reality. Antisemitism, which had been boiling since before the war, continued to pose a threat, and the suspicion and distrust of the communist age affected the entire nation. Monica and her husband Gugu (Igor), who also participated in the robbery, had been communist supporters who were abandoned and abused by the government as soon as it came to power. Lusztig's documentary speculates that government's oppression and antisemitism encouraged their criminal behavior. Having given up on their hopes for a government they believed in, Monica and her husband turned to adventure and pleasure seeking. With the money she stole, before her arrest, Monica bought a pleated gray skirt and an orange angora sweater. Material pleasures offered happiness and certainty that the government had taken from her. With a tone of uncertainty Lusztig tries to sort through the rumors that surround the crime in hopes of discovering what really happened. Were the criminals going to give the money to poor Jews in their community? Were they going to fly away and escape to Israel? Or, perhaps, was the crime staged by the communist government to encourage antisemitism? Surprises and twists unfold in the process to unveil the truth. Production
Film festivals and awardsReconstruction was screened at a number of film festivals including:
Reconstruction received the following awards:
ReceptionReconstruction received praise from the Boston Phoenix, Variety, and film scholars at Harvard and Berkeley. It has been hailed as "an example of personal documentary at its best."[2]Notes1. ^1 {{cite news | last =Gambale | first =Maria Luisa | title = Reconstructing the Romanian Past | publisher = New England Film | date = | url =http://www.newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/01october/romanian.htm | accessdate = 13 August }} 2. ^{{cite web | last = Lusztig | first =Irene | title =Reconstruction | publisher = Women Make Movies | date = | url =http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c585.shtml | accessdate =13 August}} See also
Documentaries about other singular Jewish women
References
| last = Peary | first =Gerald | title =Reconstruction | work = | pages = | publisher =Gerald Peary | date =October 2001 | url =http://geraldpeary.com/reviews/pqr/reconstruction.html | accessdate = 13 August }}
| last =Gambale | first =Maria Luisa | title = Reconstructing the Romanian Past | publisher = New England Film | date = | url =http://www.newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/01october/romanian.htm | accessdate = 13 August }}
| last = Lusztig | first =Irene | title =Reconstruction | publisher = Women Make Movies | date = | url =http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c585.shtml}}
|title = Reconstruction |publisher = Komsomol Films |date = |url = http://www.komsomolfilms.com/filmsframeset.html |accessdate = 13 August }}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} External links
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