Film Historian Adina Brădeanu on Forbidden Documentaries of the Stalinist Era

Oxford scholar Adina Brădeanu, one of our foremost film historians, tells the turbulent story in the Stalinist 1950s of the Sahia Studio, the documentary production outlet of communist Romania, at the Orphan Film Symposium, organized by the NYU Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies and Tisch School of the Arts together with the Museum of the Moving Image. The Romanian-British film historian will illustrate the fight of Romanian documentarians to fend off the artistically devastating consequences of Soviet-inspired policies with "A Film Studio in Bucharest Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary", an "orphaned" production of 1955 film that, for political as well as aesthetic reasons, was shelved indefinitely by the studio bosses. 

Dr. Adina Brădeanu's participation at the event taking place at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens (Kaufman Astoria Studios) between April 10-13 is supported by RCI New York. 

 is research associate at the Oxford Research Centre in The…