The Distance Between Me And Me

Directed by Dana Bunescu, Mona Nicoară, Rumunsko / USA, 2018, 89 min., Romanian language with Czech subtitles

Romanian avant-garde poet, intellectual, musician and an illustrator Nina Cassian has a reputation of charming femme fatale, alcoholic and a chain smoker. For decades she struggled with the central dilemma of her life: how to reconcile her artistic ideals with strict censorship. The documentary film The Distance Between Me And Me dives into period archives and through direct interviews with Nina Cassian clarifies the complicated relations between art, politics and personal truth.