ENESCU - Flayed Alive
a film by Toma Enache
June 2, 2025 at 19:30
✨ An extraordinary year for the first artistic film about George Enescu! 🎻🎬
2024 was a year full of emotions, recognition and success for 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮, 𝐣𝐮𝐩𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐮 (Flayed Alive), the first artistic film dedicated to the genius George Enescu, masterfully directed by Toma Enache.
The film was seen in over 52 gala premieres throughout the country, attended by over 25 thousand spectators! Thank you all! ♥️
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The national tour will continue next year, under the aegis of 𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐂𝐔𝟕𝟎. On January 25th at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, we begin the series of special screenings through which we will honor 70 years since the departure to the stars of our genius composer, George Enescu, a series that will continue throughout the year throughout the country and around the world!
🎶 Awards and selections:
𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮, 𝐣𝐮𝐩𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐮 has received international recognition, winning over 35 awards at prestigious international festivals:
✨ARPA International Film Awards (Los Angeles)
✨Girona International Film Festival
✨Salerno International Film Festival
✨International Sound & Film Music Festival – ISFMF Croatia
✨Cyprus International Film Festival - Aphrodite of Gold Awards
✨Five Continents International Film Festival (Venezuela)
✨Rome Prisma Film Awards
✨Athens International Art Film Festival
✨European Cinematography Awards (Amsterdam)
✨Florence Film Festival
✨BRIDGES International Film Festival from Corinthia Peloponnese
✨Colortape International Film Festival (Brisbane, Australia)
✨Istanbul HALIC GOLDENHORN International Film Festival
✨Monaco International Film Festival
✨Without Voice International Film Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina
✨Rotterdam Independent Film Festival
✨Deluxe Film Festival (Rome)
✨Madrid Film Awards (MADFA)
✨British Film Festival (London)
✨Lonely Wolf International Film Festival (London)
🎶 Reviews and appreciations:
Critics and film lovers have praised both the emotional story and the remarkable performances of the actors.
“It is difficult to find in modern cinema so much respect for the spirit of classical narratives. The style and atmosphere of the film remind us of the great masters of Italian or German cinema. Toma Enache makes no compromises in the pursuit of excellence.” (✍🏼Gustavo Coletti, Times of Cinema)
“With meticulously recreated period details and an hauntingly beautiful soundtrack, “ENESCU, flayed alive” is a meditation on the resilience of the human soul, the sacrifices of the artist, an essential film for those who appreciate historical drama, classical music and the constant struggle for artistic and personal fulfillment.” (✍🏼Rome Independent Film Festival - PRISMA)
“As George Enescu himself said, “The artist reveals to humanity the path to harmony, which is happiness and peace.” Toma Enache's film does exactly that - through its beauty, depth and the emotional tribute to an artist who lived and loved with passion, we are all reminded of the power of art to illuminate the path to harmony both in life and in love.” (✍🏼Athens International Art Film Festival)
“In creating this masterful portrait of one of Romania's greatest artists, Enache not only honored Enescu's legacy, but created a work that deserves to stand proudly alongside the best contemporary European films. “ENESCU, flayed alive” is a film that reminds us why we need art, even if it shows us the terrible price some must pay to create it.” (✍🏼 Adrián Pérez, President of the London International Film Festival - Lonely Wolf)
“19th-century literature has brought us various examples of “Romantic love in the feminine”, but the history of everyday life also tells us the other side of the coin. In the story of the Romanian musician, despite knowing that the princess loved him, George Enescu is the emblem of a “Romantic Love in the masculine” that is not afraid to show itself in all its sweetness, in all its romanticism. Toma Enache makes us experience it in every moment of the film, directing a perfect cast of actors in every role.” (✍🏼 Nino Graziano Luca, director of Compagnia Nazionale di Danza Storica)
Since “Man of God” we haven't seen people in an entire hall silent, at the end, reading the credits for minutes and minutes on end, without anyone daring to disturb even with the applause due to a gala… We seemed to have died with Enescu, this man flayed alive in life, alive among us in death! (✍🏼Floriana Jucan, Q Magazine)
I bow to the entire team. With such people, artistic film will endure. We need such films because they are the only ones that can teach us to transform pain into art. To transform the wound into poetry, as George Enescu testified: “a living wound that began to sing”. (✍🏼Andrada Badea - Minute of poetry)
"A film like a point of light in the darkness - not only cultural - that invades us." (✍🏼Marina Roman)
🎶 Public:
We were honored to see the impressive reactions of the spectators
For further details regarding the above event, please contact the organizing entity: ,C.L.A. La Steaua Association, CIF ,12708800 BUCHAREST
