Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 180 minuten
Alternative title: The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Country:
Romania
Directed by: Andrei Ujica
Starst: Nicolae Ceaușescu, Elena Ceaușescu and Leonid Brezhnev
IMDb score:
7,5 (1.702)
Releasedate: 29 October 2010
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Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu plot
We see the Romanian ex-dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu in court. Through fragments from the past of both himself and that of his country Romania and her people, he pleads his case in court. A theatrical documentary that tries to provide insight into the country and its dictator.
Actors and actresses
Himself (archive footage)
Herself (archive footage)
Himself (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Reviews & comments
wendyvortex
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- 5196 messages
- 7279 votes
3 hours of Ceausescu in more or less chronological order, without commentary, without further explanation of who this man actually is.
But I still vividly remember those last days: December 20 to December 25, 1989 and it was all live on TV, the Romanian uprising against dictator Ceausescu and his Securitate.
We start here with Ceasescu in the fifties, the new chairman of the Communist Party...with a good relationship with both the Americans and the Chinese and a course independent of Moscow, in 1968 even takes a clear position on the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, but from the seventies onwards we see more and more megalomaniac projects, a country that is further deteriorating and a Ceasescu who deviates in no way from the humorless, unscrupulous and despicable leaders of the Eastern Bloc...and when after two and a half hours Gorbachev appears on screen, we only see a stocky old man with a dogged look and angry gestures for whom we feel not an ounce of sympathy and who also received exactly the end that every dictator deserves.
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tbouwh
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- 5824 messages
- 5411 votes
An ironic title is perhaps the most important feat of this sober documentary about the world of Ceausescu. In my opinion, the term 'autobiography' implies the following: the film contains exactly the kind of images that Ceausescu himself would most like to show his audience. Stately parades, impressive cityscapes, visits and outings in the interior and international state visits. The irony is of course that director Ujica uses these 'ideal' images precisely to dismantle the world of his main character. In that light, the volleyball scene already mentioned in this forum is striking, but the public appearance of a comrade and critic (sparingly! or does no one dare?) also leaves a strong impression. I was reminded very much of ''State Funeral'' by Loznitsa, but for me this film could have been a bit more compact, possibly with a more explicit organization and perhaps some extra context. Fortunately, there is still plenty to ponder as you watch that stream of archive footage: did this man really continue to believe in his own fairy tales? And why do the heads of state and party of North Korea and China apparently enjoy coming to tea just as much as Nixon and the British royals?
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mrklm
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- 11659 messages
- 10059 votes
On 25 December 1989, Romanian head of state Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena were put on trial in a show tribunal after the Romanian army turned against them. The immediate cause of the coup was Ceaușescu's order to the army to shoot demonstrators in Timișoara, but Ceaușescu had much more on his conscience. Ujica compiled this documentary using archive footage from Romanian state television during the Ceaușescu regime, which functioned as a propaganda tool and was responsible for a great display of self-aggrandizement. What we see is not only Ceaușescu as he saw himself, but also as the Romanians saw him. And, at least as important, the role that Western countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States played in confirming Ceaușescu's status as a great statesman. Impressive, fascinating, but a bit on the long side.
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