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THE GREAT COMMUNIST BANK ROBBERY

4:25

Wednesday, November 20

(2004, Alexandru Solomon) 1959, and during the trial of six men for a spectacular robbery at the Romanian National Bank, they strike a deal to take the death penalty off the table: by reenacting the crime for TV. Document of bizarre saga of criminal “justice” in the Stalinist era. DCP. Approx. 75 min.

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