For a film made in 1911, this chronicle of the 1877 war of Romania and Russia against the Turkish which led to Romania's independence is crude and primitive; but for a film from a country with little film history at the time, it is a monumental achievement. It plays more like a newsreel or documentary than an historical drama, and the filmmakers have little to no knowledge of the concept of editing (if they did, the film would only have been one-third its current length). Of historical importance to Romanian cinema, but of little worth otherwise.
Review of The Independence of Romania
