Desc: The Distance Between Me and Me: Directed by Dana Bunescu, Mona Nicoara. With Nina Cassian, Maurice Edwards, Mona Nicoara. A heavy drinker and heavy smoker, the avantgardist poet, composer and illustrator Nina Cassian she was both an accomplice and a problem for the Stalinist regime in Romania. Afterwards she was a direct opposer of Ceausescu's regime.