That Trip We Took with Dad by Anca Miruna Lăzărescu, also has an expansive outlook in a tale of Communist-era state oppression and alienation. In 1968, a high-strung doctor and his teenage brother attempt to sneak their ailing father out of the country for an operation in East Germany. Their trip brings them straight into the path of Soviet tanks invading defiant Czechoslovakia. The complicated history and geography of the Eastern bloc countries evoked in this film might be mysterious to a mainstream American audience. But as the doctor tries to appease the authorities, while the little brother endangers their mission by shouting anti-totalitarian slogans, the stakes are as clear as they must be in the cronyist White House.