REALITATEA POETICĂ ÎN DOCUMENTARELE SCRIITORULUI CINEAST ANATOL CODRU

Abstract

In the second half of the ‘60s in the 20th century, the cinematography in soviet Moldova passes through an anthological metamorphosis. Gheorghe Vodă, Vlad Ioviţă, Emil Loteanu, Gheorghe Malarciuc, Aurel Busuioc, Anatol Codru, Iacob Burghiu, Andrei Strâmbeanu – are just a few young writers who became interested in the film industry. They chose to represent reality through poetic metaphor, being inspired by the deep vibrations of Romanian literature, by her immortal myths and legends that were kept in the archives of the collective memory and further perpetuated for generations. Anatol Codru is one of the few filmmakers who did not cross a line at the horizon, by creating an illusory welfare. He did not used lens’ focal distances to show a great monumental reality which was in fact a bragging of socialist achievements in an agrarian reply with big livestock, conveyer milking, automated feeding of cattle that were never taken out to pasture, with machines that does not need people for working the lands in an enormous harvest battle. Event thought it seemed almost impossible to not be drawn into the vortex of time’s turmoil, Anatol Codru has succeded in finding an honored place in the field of cultural documentary that proved to be a less exposed niche for the Bolshevik propaganda.