Leontina Vatamanu’s based on true stories film Siberia in the Bones will be shown Saturday and Sunday at 8:30 MP in the Great National Assembly Square, as part of the Pain Train exhibition. This is also the last weekend in which the exhibition can be visited.
A OWH Studio production, tells the story of four protagonists who were abducted and deported to Siberia on the night of July 6-7, 1949.
The Pain Train exhibition is at its second edition and this year has a new format, with digital and graphic elements, multimedia content, items, photographs and stories from the lives of deported families. Also, in the two old train cars on display there is a library with books about the tragic events, and visitors can find the names of deported relatives in the Book of Remembrance.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Stalinist deportations of July 6-9, 1949 – the largest deportation in Moldova that affected 36 thousand people or over 11 thousand families. The properties, lands and assets of the deported peasants were handed over to collective farms, and some were stolen and sold.
