Reuters
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For Romanian-born U.S. actor Sebastian Stan, the Cannes Film Festival drama “Fjord”, centred around the clash of values that ensues when a religious family relocates from Romania to a Norwegian village, has allowed him to reconnect with his roots.
“I left in a very chaotic way, and I’ve really tried to educate myself about the country,” Stan told journalists on Tuesday, a day after the premiere of the film that he said had provided the chance “to rebond” with the country of his birth.
Stan left Romania with his mother when he was about 8 years old and the vast majority of the country’s population was suffering economic hardship and political repression under communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu.
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, who won the festival’s top prize in 2007 with “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”, said that he had started writing the script, inspired by true stories, only after Stan had agreed to take on one of the leading roles.
Stan, who made his name in the Captain America trilogy, stars as a Romanian IT technician who decides to move his family of seven to the Norwegian village where his wife, played by “Sentimental Value” standout Renate Reinsve, was born.
