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”Miracle”, the latest film by Bogdan George Apetri is being screened in more than 40 cinemas in over 20 cities and towns in Romania. The film, a psychological thriller, features Ioana Bugarin and Emanuel Parvu in the lead role. After ”Unidentified”, which last year won the trophy of the Anonimul Film festival, ”Miracle” is the second part of a trilogy whose action is placed in Piatra Neamt, the native town of director Bogdan George Apetri. The director has been living in the US for 20 years and is a professor at the Columbia University in New York. Divided into two chapters, "Miracle" starts with a young nun, Cristina Tofan, impersonated by Ioana Bugarin, who leaves the monastery to go to a hospital in the neighbouring town. The second part of the film focuses on Marius Preda, played by Emanuel Pârvu, the police inspector who reconstitutes her journey step by step. His investigation leads to clues and confessions that reveal not only
film profile] (2019), but he is certainly not waiting that long for his third effort:
Miracle, an independent film that he shot before the pandemic, will soon wrap post-production. The project is being staged by Apetri and
Oana Iancu through their new production company The East Company Productions (Romania). The co-production companies are Cineart TV Prague (Czech Republic), represented by
Viktor Schwarcz, and Tasse Film (Latvia), represented by
Aija Bērziņa.
The screenplay, written by Apetri, follows Cristina (
Ioana Bugarin), a 19-year-old nun, as she finds herself at a crossroads in her life. We see her sneaking out of her monastery in order to attend to an urgent matter at a hospital in the nearby city. Unable to solve her problem, she returns in the evening only to meet an unexpected fate on the way back. Later on, we meet a policeman, Marius (