Closer to the Moon

Closer to the Moon Romanian Mai aproape de lun is a 2013 RomanianAmerican comedydrama film written and directed by Nae Caranfil, and starring Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, Harry Lloyd, Joe Armstrong, Tim Plester, Christian McKay, and Anton Lesser. Based on the true story of the Ioanid Gang, it is one of the most expensive productions in Romanian cinema.

Postwar Communist Romania In 1959 Bucharest, members of Romanias high society Max Rosenthal Mark Strong, Alice Bercovich Vera Farmiga, Dumi Dorneanu Tim Plester, Rzvan Orodel Joe Armstrong and Iorgu Ristea Christian McKay, known collectively as Ioanid Gang, announce to a crowd that they are shooting a film. A young caf worker, Virgil Harry Lloyd, is among the witnesses. Under the guise of making this film, the Ioanid Gang perform a heist of the National Bank of Romania. The following day, Virgil loiters around a film set and encounters the director, Flaviu Allan Corduner, who requests him to buy vodka and give it to him whenever he asks.Eight months before the heist took place, Max, Dumi, Iorgu and Rzvan, heroes of the resistance during World War II, celebrate New Years Eve and the start of 1959, though Max is in the middle of divorcing his wife, Sonia Monica Brldeanu. Alice returns from Moscow with her and Maxs son, Mirel Marcin Walewski, in tow. She reintroduces Mirel to his father, and they begin to bond. ........

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