Brassy Bands, The  Romania
2007, 52min.
Prod./Script/Dir.: Cornel Gheorghita, Dir. of Phot.: Nicu Mihali, Giani Oprina, Geo Balint, Tudor Mircea, Sound: Viorel Ghiocel, Costel Buteica, Edit.: Nathalie Mougenot.
At the beginning of the last century, Romanian peasants discovered the solemn music
of the military bands when they went into the cities. They were so impressed by these that they wanted to have brass bands in their villages as well.
With the arrival of the communists, these popular country marching brass bands were invited to participate at official events. The regime confiscated their land, built immense industrial complexes and many of the farm-workers became factory workers. The brass bands then became a symbol of the people's well-being and the brotherhood between the farm and factory workers. With the fall of the Communist regime, many factories closed down. The unemployed went back home to their country villages in order to take back their confiscated lands.
| Gheorghita, Cornel  Cornel (Corneliu) Gheorghita
Romanian and French Citizenship. In 1976 he started making his first amateur films. From 1977 to 1983 he studied at Polytechnic University of Bucharest (Engineer Degree), worked as a photo reporter for several magazines and newspapers in Bucharest. Between 1985 and 1989 worked as an engineer for Cinema Centre in Bucharest, produced eight fiction films and documentaries. In 1990 he emigrated to France where he has been living since. Since 1991 he is a teacher at Superior School of Audiovisual at the University of Toulouse. Since 2001 – a teacher at ETPA (Private School for Audiovisual).
Filmography (selected)
Say Joeff (1993), Farewell to Love (1994), Masquerades (2002), The Country Brass Band (2003), Magix Star (2004), Wreck (2004), Luna Park (2005), Story of 10 Poles (2005), The Brassy Bands (2007), (2007), Europolis (2010)
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