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Planet Petrila documentary

Original title: Planeta Petrila
Year: 2016
Running time: 80 min.
Country: Romania
Director: Andrei Dascalescu
Screenwriter: Andrei Dascalescu
Cast: Documentary, Self: Ion Barbu, Catalin Cenusa, Mihai Barbu
Cinematography: Andrei Dascalescu
Producer: Filmlab
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: In Petrila, a coal mining town in Transylvania (Romania), an ex-miner turned artist and activist uses art and absurdism to stop local authorities from demolishing the historic buildings of the oldest coal mine in the country after its' closure in 2015, at EU's recommendation. His quest is not only to preserve the history and the identity of his hometown, but also to find new ways of keeping the community from irreversibly falling apart.

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