LENIN’S PAWN

Romania, 2025

85 min

Documentary

Director: Dragoș Turea

Screenplay: Dragoș Turea

Cinematography: Vladislav Hîncu

Cast: Nadejda Voloc, Sergiu Voloc, Ion Voloc

Synopsis: 

A hybrid documentary in which actor Sergiu Voloc, a modern-day Don Quixote, wages an absurd battle against the Lenin monuments scattered across the Republic of Moldova and against a system determined to rebuild them night after night. 

Dragoș Turea

Dragos Turea was born in Chisinau, Moldova in 1980. Graduated in 2004 from the Chisinau Academy of Music, Theatre and Arts with a Master’s Degree in Film Directing. He made his debut with the documentary “Vasile Mamaliga”, awarded with the debut prize of The Union of Filmmakers from Moldova in 2007. He worked as a producer for Publika TV, Prime TV, Jurnal TV (2007-2015). In 2010 he started his biggest project to date, the feature-length documentary film production ”The Soviet Garden”.