 Hence, film could be used as an important ideological weapon and the Communists needed it in their "great work" of destroying democracies).Furthermore, it had been proven that the tenacious work of Romanian film directors, despite all its imperfections, had been well received by the public, and had begun to prove right those who kept calling for subsidies toward the production of Romanian films.Thus, at the beginning of 1934, a law was passed establishing a National Cinema Fund.