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'Gruber's Journey' or 'Cltoria lui Gruber' is a 2008 Romanian drama film directed by Radu Gabrea. It is set in World War II during the Holocaust in Iai (Iai pogrom) and was shot on location in Bucharest. The film screened at the Third Annual Romanian Film Festival.

Plot



The film centers on an Italian writer named Curzio Malaparte, who was a member of the Italian Fascist Party.

Malaparte is assigned to cover the Russian front for the Italian news service, and travels with Colonel Freitag of the Wehrmacht and the deputy commander of the local Romanian garrison to Romania. He suffers from a serious allergy and is sent to consult world-class allergist, Dr. Josef Gruber in Iai, but Gruber is missing.

Suffering terribly from his allergy, Malaparte desperately seeks to find the doctor who has been captured. During his search for the doctor he encounters shocking situations in the Holocaust against the Jews in the city. He later writes a very critical account of the incident in his novel 'Kaputt'.

Cast



*Florin Piersic Jr. as Curzio Malaparte

*Marcel Iure as Doctor Gruber

*Udo Schenk as Col. Freitag

*Claudiu Bleon as Col. Niculescu-Coca

*Alexandru Bindea as Guido Sartori

*Rzvan Vasilescu as Stavarache

*Andi Vasluianu as Mircea

*Ionu Grama as Consulate Driver

*Mihai Gruia Sandu as Dr. Anghel

*Dumitru-Paul Flticeanu as Soldier

*Cristina Bodnrescu as Wome

*Trefi Alexandru as Soldier

Production



In September 2007, scenes were shot at the North railway station in Suceava. The railway station was chosen by the filmmakers to appear in the film because its architecture was reminiscent of the period of the Second World War.

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