Sunday, October, 20, 2013, 4:00 p.m.
Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Screening

The Way I Spent the End of the World 
Cum mi-am petrecut sfarsitul lumii, 2006, Catalin Mitulescu, English Subtitles, 106 min

Q&A with Ramona Uritescu-Lombard

Bucharest 1989 — the last year of Ceausescu’s dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7-year-old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva’s decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator.