The Human Rights Students' Initiative (HRSI) at CEU in cooperation with the CEU Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB) and the CEU Center for Policy Studies (CPS) hosted a film screening of '4 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days' , directed by Christian Mungiu, the Winner of Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, European Film Awards, Stockholm Film Festival and other awards.
Introduction: Prof. Judit Sandor (Faculties of Political Science, Legal Studies and Gender Studies), Director of CELAB.
The movie is a part of Memories from the Golden Age, a movie cycle of several stories taking place during Communist times in Romania and indirectly depicting subjective history of communism through the urban legends. The film is based on a real-life story told to the director back in the early 1990-s and reveals the problem of illegal abortion under communism.
The screening is in Romanian with English subtitles.
For more information, please see film`s webpage