Synopsis
Closer to the Moon (2014) is a dark comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Nae Caranfil and based on a true story — one of Communist Romania's most audacious crimes. In Bucharest, 1959, five people walked into the State Bank dressed as a film crew and walked out with a small fortune.
What made the affair even stranger is who they were: decorated wartime resistance fighters turned senior officials, people the regime had once celebrated as heroes. After their arrest, the authorities devised a surreal punishment — the condemned were forced to reenact their own heist on camera for a propaganda film. Vera Farmiga and Mark Strong lead the cast through a story that balances deadpan absurdity with something genuinely dark underneath.
The film earns its place among the stranger chapters of Cold War history. Less interested in martyrdom than in the specific texture of defiance — exhausted, sardonic, clear-eyed about what comes next. Stream Closer to the Moon (2014) online on iFILM.
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