Cinematic dialogue “Quo vadis, populi?”: history and destinies

Abstract

The ideological background, the complex of problems related to dictatorship, occupation of foreign territories, freedom, national identity, etc. addressed by director Vlad Druc in the feature films “Alternante/Alternatives (1991) and “Frontiere/Frontiers” (1992) in the dialogue “Quo vadis, populi?” (“Where are you going, people?”) will be elucidated parallel to the investigations of the ways of expression through the cinematographic language. At the basis of these films, being, for the most part, the cinematic chronicle, the director’s work on this material is of interest, which on the screen goes far beyond the informative limits, obtaining the qualities of an artisticaesthetic state, which provokes meditation and even emotions. These are the repercussions of a profoundly creative attitude on the part of the director V. Druc towards all the components of his cinematographic discourses.