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September 2 • 2010

or the first years of his life in
Communist Romania, Radu
Mihaileanu couldn't under-
stand why his grandmother, who lived
with his family, prepared her own
meals in her own pots and pans.
At 5, he suddenly understood.
One day, his father, Ion, called
the family together to reveal a fam-
ily secret. The Mihaileanus were
really the Buchmans; Ion was really
Mordechai. The family was Jewish, his
grandmother kept kosher and several
members of the family had died in the
Holocaust.
Mordechai Buchman, a journalist,
had changed his obviously Jewish
name to a typically Romanian one
when he escaped from a labor camp
in Nazi-allied Romania during World
War II. After the war, he kept the
adopted name — under Nazism and
Communism, asserting one's Jewish
identity was not good for one's health
or one's career.
That day when he was 5 colored the
rest of Radu Mihaileanu's life.
"I remember it like it was yesterday"
he says. "It changed everything inside
me."
Now a resident of Paris and a suc-
cessful film director, he has written
and directed a series of films that cen-

French-Jewish actress Melanie

Laurent stars as a young violin

virtuoso in The Concert.

ter around the themes of lies and false
identity, escaping one life and seeking
another, humor and a Jewish point of
view.
In Train of Life, the inhabitants of a
doomed shtetl fake their own deporta-
tion in an attempt to travel to safety.
In Live and Become, a young Ethiopian
Christian boy pretends, at his mother's
insistence, to be a Jew in order to
escape his poor homeland and immi-
grate to Israel.
Now, in The Concert, Mihaileanu
explores a similar theme — a promi-
nent conductor in Moscow, who lost
his job during Communism because
he would not fire his Jewish musicians,
reassembles them, pretending to be

