The film received the Special Jury Award at the Rome IFF, the Trophy Golden Taiga at the International Debut Film Festival in Khanty-Mansiisk (Siberia), and a Special Mention for production design at GoEast Wiesbaden.
Quod erat demonstrandum aka The Escape is a story of friendship and betrayal during the communist era involving a mathematician (Sorin Leoveanu) who published a paper in an American scientific magazine. Andrei Grusznicki wrote the script and Velvet Moraru is producing through ICONproduction .
"I have to admit that the communist era fascinates me. It's my youth; the 80s were our most 'crazy' years. Besides that, the Romanian intellectual during the communist era is a rara avis in the Romanian cinema," Velvet Moraru told FNE. She was also the producer of Andrei Ujică acclaimed essay The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu.
The 80s are very demanding in a film shot today, mostly because it's difficult to find proper exteriors. Quod erat demonstrandum is a 100% Romanian production shot on location with a budget of 700,000 EUR. The National Center for Cinema supported it with a production grant of approximately €360,000 /1.59m RON. The film was made with the contribution of Cinema City &Thegroup, Abis Studio and HBO România. Vivi Drăgan Vasile is the DoP, and the cast includes: Ofelia Popii, Florin Piersic Jr., Virgil Ogăşanu, Marc Titieni, Dorian Boguţă, Alina Berzunţeanu, Lucian Ifrim and Mihai Călin
The Romanian premiere is set for October 2014.
Production Information
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Credits:
Director: Andrei Grusznicki
Script: Andrei Grusznicki
DOP: Vivi Drăgan Vasile
Editing: Dana Bunescu
Production design: Cristian Niculescu
Costumes: Svetlana Mihăilescu
Make up: Miruna Panaitescu
Production manager: Claudia Chima
Cast: Sorin Leoveanu, Ofelia Popii, Florin Piersic Jr., Virgil Ogăşanu, Marc Titieni, Dorian Boguţă, Alina Berzunţeanu, Lucian Ifrim, Dan Tudor, Mihai Călin, Adina Cristescu
