Quod erat demonstrandum

The film is set in Romania. The year is 1984. Sorin is a gifted mathematician. But he cannot rise in the academy. The reason is that he is not a party member. He is working on a new theorem. He wants his work published abroad. He arranges it in secret. The text comes out in an American journal. Word of it reaches the security service. The Securitate opens an investigation. Getting a text across the border is a matter in itself. An officer called Voican leads it. Voican puts pressure on the people around Sorin. He expects his friends and colleagues to inform. The investigation closes in on the people around Sorin as well. The film was shot in black and white. Sorin Leoveanu and Ofelia Popii take the leads in Andrei Gruzsniczki’s Romanian film of 2014.