Spruce Forest

Story

Synopsis

The Spruce Forest explores one of the darkest pages in Romanian history. Inspired by the drama of Fântâna Albă on April 1, 1941, the film reconstructs the fate of a Romanian community in Bessarabia, massacred in a desperate attempt to find refuge from the Soviet occupation. The testimony of a survivor of this genocide becomes the backdrop against which archival images and his wife's memories of Siberia are superimposed, in a dizzying game of mirrors that questions the notion of historical truth and reveals forgotten traumas with potentially devastating consequences in the present.

Director

Tudor Giurgiu

Writers

Tudor Giurgiu

Language

Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan

Country

Romania

Release date

10 October 2025

Ensemble

Cast

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  Mircea Andreescu

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  Coca Bloos

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  Ionuţ Caras