Florin Lepan launched in 2009 his personal campaign for the ‘denazification’ of Romania. He reveals one of the darkest moment in the recent history of his country: the massacre from October 1941 when Romanian soldiers, without any German assistance, burned alive more than 22.000 civilians, mostly Jews, in the occupied town of Odessa. Odessa is a committed documentary that approaches a historical topic in an unconventional fashion. Following Lepan’s investigation, the film exhibits, with a certain amount of self-irony, the painful and convoluted journey of Lepan whose aim is to start an honest public debate about Romania’s past. Florin Lepan gets in touch with national media and experiences striking signs of indifference and unexpected acts of sabotage.
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