Films by Sanne Kurz

Germany 2012, 53 min
by Stefan Urlaß

Rodica is the first name of each of the two protagonists in Alice Gruia’s film. Rodica Grill is 86 years old and the two years older Rodica Gruia is her best friend and Alice’s grandmother. Both of them have Romanian-Jewish roots and have been living for 30 and 20 years respectively in Sydney, Australia, where they met. RODICA GRILL is the more childish of the two, with the biggest mouth. She was always looking for a free country which she found neither in Romania nor in Uruguay. Rodica is by na