After he enlisted the plaintiffs' father as his agent in Romania, the company became the leading film distributor in Eastern Europe, according to the complaint.

The plaintiffs' uncle, who lived in the United States in the 1920s, began sending short runs of Charlie Chaplin films to a friend in Romania for distribution.

citizen, both of Armenian descent, founded Cinegrafia Romana, or CIRO Films, a post-production laboratory and studio, in the mid 1930s.īased in Bucharest, CIRO Films 'was the industry-leading motion picture production and post-production company for the entire Balkan region with substantial U.S. The brothers say their father, a Turkish citizen, and their uncle, a U.S. citizen in 1990 and his brother, a citizen of Canada since 1977, became a U.S.

Jak and Edward Sukyas sued Romania and RADEF Romania Film on March 16, in Los Angeles Federal Court.īoth plaintiffs were born in Bucharest, Romania. (CN) - Romania's Communist regime confiscated a 'state-of-the-art film laboratory and studio' in the 1940s and two Angeleno expatriates claim in court that it belongs to their family, and they want it back.

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