The Spruce Forest explores one of the darkest pages in Romanian history. Inspired by the tragedy of Fântâna Albă on April 1, 1941, the film recounts the fate of a Romanian community in Basarabia, massacred in a desperate attempt to find refuge from the Soviet occupation. The testimony of a survivor of this genocide becomes the backdrop against which archive footage and his wife’s memories of Siberia are superimposed in a dizzying mirror game that questions the notion of historical truth and reveals forgotten traumas with potentially devastating consequences today.
