The Romanian communist era will be the main subject in the upcoming film “Closer to the Moon”, starring “Up in the Air” star Vera Farmiga and Mark Strong, according to Deadline.com. Romanian Nae Caranfil, the director behind the 2007 Romanian drama “The rest is silence”, will be directing this movie.

The two actors will play lovers in a complicated story about a group of Jewish who pulled off a bank robbery under the cover of making a movie. They were sentenced to death due to their religion. Mark Strong is playing one of the robbers, while Vera Farmiga plays his partner and the mother of his child, who returns from her studies in Moscow.

The production of the movie is set to begin in early fall in Bucharest.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com

(photo source: Vera-farmiga.com)