Sighet, Sighet Filming Locations
Where was Sighet, Sighet filmed? Sighet, Sighet was filmed in 3 locations across Romania in the following places:
Sighet, Sighet Filming Locations
Sighetu Marmației, until 1960 Sighet, is a city in Maramureș County near the Iza River, in northwestern Romania.
Maramureș is a geographical, historical and cultural region in northern Romania and western Ukraine. It is situated in the northeastern Carpathians, along parts of the upper Tisza River drainage basin; it covers the Maramureș Depression and the surrounding Carpathian mountains.
Romania is a southeastern European country known for the forested region of Transylvania, ringed by the Carpathian Mountains. Its preserved medieval towns include Sighişoara, and there are many fortified churches and castles, notably clifftop Bran Castle, long associated with the Dracula legend. Bucharest, the country’s capital, is the site of the gigantic, Communist-era Palatul Parlamentului government building.
Sighet, Sighet (1967)
Elie Wiesel, a survivor from Sighet [aka Sighetu Marmatiei], a town from which thousands of Jews were deported to the extermination camp Auschwitz, returns, unknown and unseen, a silent witness to the town where he was born and grew up. When Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 the town belonged to Romania, after 1940 then to Hungary, but now it's again a Romanian town. Life goes on in Sighet, the same buildings are still there but for Wiesel this normalcy is a lie; for the inhabitants he knew have vanished before their time and he realizes that he cannot 'return'.