Tatăl meu, Romulus
(Romulus, My Father)
21:40, Marţi (16 martie), HBO
http://www.hbo.ro/TitleDetail.aspx?TitleId=-64375
Australia, 2007, dramă biografică, 104 minute
http://port.ro/tatal_meu,_romulus_romulus,_my_father
Veteranul actor australian Richard Roxburgh îşi face debutul regizoral
cu ecranizarea autobiografiei mult aclamate a lui Raimond Gaita,
adaptată pentru ecran de poetul Nick Drake.
În ciuda greutăţilor din viaţa lor, Romulus şi frumoasa sa soţie
Christina se luptă să-şi crească fiul, pe Raimond, atât cât pot ei de
bine. În timp ce Romulus, profund moral, se luptă să recupereze absenţa
şi neglijenţa mamei depresive, între tată şi fiu se leagă o relaţie
indisolubilă care devine din ce în ce mai puternică odată cu trecerea
timpului.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus,_My_Father
Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Romania in 1935 at the age of 28, and emigrated to Australia on an assisted passage in 1950 with his young wife Christine and their four-year-old son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. Romulus and his family were transferred to Bonegilla, a migrant reception and clearing camp near Wodonga. Romulus
was then sent to Baringhup on the Loddon River, where he met two
Romanian brothers Pantelimon (known as Hora) and Demitru (known as Mitru).
The Gaitas later moved to a farmhouse called Frogmore where they lived
for the next ten years, and where Raimond spent much of his childhood.
Christine does not stay at Frogmore to take on the responsibility as a
wife and mother. She has an affair with Mitru and moves to Melbourne to
be with him, and has two daughters with him. Mitru commits suicide
before the birth of the second child, and Christine later also commits
suicide. Both daughters are adopted. Raimond observes in retrospect that
Christine likely had a mental illness.
After some attempts at farming, Romulus establishes a business supplying
wrought iron furniture, popular at the time, and using some of the
skills he brought from his native country.
Romulus also suffers from mental illness, requiring admission to a
psychiatric hospital. While Romulus was unable to care for Raimond, Hora
came and lived with Raimond and cared for him.
Romulus later largely recovered from his mental illness, and saw Raimond
live to adulthood and pursue his chosen career. Romulus later suffered
heart problems and eventually died of a blood clot.
The story of Romulus, My Father details the struggle of many immigrants
during and after the Second World War, and how these adversities were
faced and sometimes overcome.
It portrays the never dwindling love of Romulus for his son Raimond, in
spite of the challenges of being abandoned by his wife and the confusion
caused by his mental illness.
Nicolae Serban 