Ars Christiana No. II (XX) / 2025
‘The Ladder’ or ‘A Short Treatise on the Artist’s Salvation’
The film Scara (2021), directed by Vlad Păunescu from a screenplay by Constantin Chelba, follows the existential journey of the actor Andrei Avram, inspired by the life of Dragoș Pâslaru, set against the backdrop of the Romanian theatre scene in the final years of communism and the turmoil of the transition period, culminating in the protagonist’s transformation through suffering, the film’s central theme.