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GOD SAVE THE PARTISANS AS WE WAIT FOR THE AMERICANS! Astra Film Festival, Sibiu, 2016; Romanian Film and History Festival, Râșnov, 2017; Festival du Film Roumain, Montreal, Quebec, 2018, DocEST, Iași, 2018. “The impressive deployment of troops demonstrates the extent of repression in Romania, and Dragoș Zămosteanu’s film becomes in itself an important document for this history of anti-communist resistance, as resistance to a new form of barbarity, to which eyewitnesses find no comparison in the behavior of the Hungarian or German authorities during the occupation of Transylvania after the Vienna Dictate. And there’s more. These people have washed and continue to wash away our shame. I’m referring to that of tens of thousands of cast members, some of them with cultural pedigree. The face, the gaze and the way of speaking of these people have something tonic, hard to explain, something clean, that radiates from them. Their banal words weigh down, they have weight. They are the kind of people who know how to tell the difference between NO and YES where the soul hangs by a thread. And life as well.” (Angelo Mitchievici, “Memory and Forgetting: Anti-Communist Partisans”, “Timpul” magazine, 21.10.2016)