This Wednesday, THE MAGICIAN, the new film by Bogdan Muresanu, will be screened in the official competition at the St Louis International Film Festival, Missouri.
This is yet another film event qualifying for the Hollywood Oscars, which has selected this magnificent co-production between Romania, France and Croatia.

THE MAGICIAN premiered this summer at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France.

Bogdan Muresanu won the European Film Academy Award for his previous work, CADOUL DE CRACIUN. He was also a FINALIST in the Hollywood Oscars race.

Synopsis:

Sulina, 1910. It is the inauguration of the first electric power station in this Romanian port city. In the jubilation of a modern and cosmopolitan crowd, Ilarion, a prestidigitator from another time, tries to play his last card.

Director’s Statement:

“I wanted to revive a bygone world and the technique of animation allowed me to recreate, from stills, the settings in which the action of the movie takes place, but I also wanted to get to the essence of the story. And here I think animation was a medium that suited my intention: not to illustrate the glory of a bygone world, through the fate of a once exuberant and cosmopolitan port, now reduced to the dimensions of a forgotten small town, but to represent the substance of the story I wrote many years ago,” says Bogdan Mureșanu.
“Film, especially animated film, which is supposed to be a total visual invention, has to produce an image that, at best, then hangs on the walls of those ‘dark corridors’ in the viewer’s mind.”, adds the director.

THE MAGICIAN aka MAGICIANUL, is on track to reach 30 selections at international film festivals in just five months on the circuit.

Stay tuned. In a few days, we will announce new selections in qualifying festivals for the Hollywood Oscars and the European Film Awards.

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