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Bitter Honey (Interview)
Bitter Honey (Interview)

Author(s): Ioana Daia, Daniela Alexandrescu
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Muzeul Ţăranului Român, Editura Martor
Keywords: (post)communism; democracy; film directing; alternative financing; transition; documentary genre; film-making; beekeeping;

Summary/Abstract: I met film director David Reu in the spring of 2001. We were instantly taken with his incredible energy, with his charm and funny stories, as well as with his gentlemanly manners. I then discovered a man who, apart from his impressive carrier as a documentary film-maker (we will only mention here “Ţuculescu”, “Calea Moşilor – trecut şi prezent”), also manages several other different projects both editorial and in the field of the cinema. Much to his amazement, instead of discussing this films, we challenged him to tell us about an episode which many would deem unimportant, but which may be representative for the crucial moment of the 1990s. However unusual and singular it may appear to us now, back then it was not at all uncommon that a film maker should become a professional beekeeper or that a film studio should start out as a bee entrance.

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 104-110
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English