Summary: Clm̌entine is a teacher at the French School in Bucharest. She lives with her husband Lucas, who is a writer. They live in a remote estate in Snagow. During the night, Clm̌entine is awakened by weird noises outside the old house and Lucas sees their car being stolen. Then the lights in the house turn off, the phone line is dead and they see that their property gate has been trespassed and they...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Sky Films 2007

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF THE

Summary: Mini-series that chronicles the lives of an English couple who live in Bucharest when WWII breaks out.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOR

Summary: As a serial killer stalks the city murdering young women, an actress who just moved to Bucharest with her boyfriend notices a mysterious stranger constantly watching her from across the street. In a foreign country where she does not speak the language and under the scrutiny of this stalker, her life quickly becomes tense and insufferable, but she finds no one to believe her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Midnight 2022

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER WAT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAT

Summary: A well-to-do Bucharest architect is determined to keep her deadbeat son out of jail after a deadly car crash. How far will she go to convince the police, eyewitnesses, and even the victim's family that her son was not recklessly speeding? A spellbinding drama of social commentary and psychological realism, this caustic look into the corrupt heart of the Eastern European bourgeoisie twists into...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CHI

Sepetys, Ruta

Summary: In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEP

Sepetys, Ruta

Summary: "Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians arent free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauşescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. Hes left with only two...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SEP