Legionary Youth is a feature length animated documentary that reconstructs the rise of fascism in inter-war Romania, and its tragic consequences.
The story intertwines a chronological summary of the events with Mihail Sebastian’s Jurnal – a Jewish Romanian author’s eyewitness account of the events. What makes Sebastian’s account so relevant is that, in parallel with society’s rightward slide, we see in his diary how his best friends also become radicalized.
Type of work: Documentary animation film
Stage: In development
Looking for: Co-producer
Contacts: askliviu@gmail.com
Legionary Youth is Liviu Bărbulescu’s first feature-length film. He is an animator and director living and working between Bucharest and Berlin. He just finished his first short movie The Life and Miracles of Saint Nicodemus of Tismana, an animated documentary exploring the beginnings of roma slavery in Romania.
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