Directed by Radu Gabrea
Original title: Călătoria lui Gruber
Romania, 2008, 97 min.
Screenplay: Răzvan Rădulescu, Alexandru Baciu
Cinematography: Dinu Tanase
Cast: Florin Piersic Jr., Claudiu Bleont, Răzvan Vasilescu, Colin Buzoianu, Marcel Iures, Udo Schenk
Production: Orion Film Romania, Zenith Film, Uj Budapest Film Studio
Festivals: Transilvania IFF 2008; Eastern European Film Festival, Montreal 2008; Special Guest Radu Gabrea at KLEZFIESTA, Buenos Aires, 2008; upcoming: Atlanta International Jewish Film Festival 2009

Directed by the veteran Radu Gabrea, [and co-written by Răzvan Rădulescu (The Death of Mr Lazarescu)], this film is an absorbing tragi-comedy which focuses on the attempts of the Italian author Curzio Malaparte to search for Josef Gruber, a Jewish doctor, whom he hopes will help cure his severe allergy. The red tape that he has to wade through to find the doctor makes Dickens' Circumlocution Office seem straightforward,” writes Ronald Bergan in The Guardian. A friend of Mussolini’s and a war correspondent attached to the Wehrmacht troops, Malaparte arrives in the Romanian town of Iasi in June 1941, soon after the Romanian Army, under the orders of Marshall Ion Antonescu, entered the “sacred war” as an ally to Hitler’s Germany against the Soviet Russia. His search for Gruber leads him to discover terrifying truths, which have been long hidden and twisted by the official History of Romania.