Nicolae Ceaușescu
Biography: Nicolae Ceaușescu (5 February [O.S. 23 January] 1918[1] – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and dictator. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last Communist leader of Romania. He was also the country's head of state from 1967, serving as President of the State Council and from 1974 concurrently as President of the Republic, until his overthrow and execution in the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, part of a series of anti-Communist uprisings in Eastern Europe that year.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 26, 1918
Deathday: December 25, 1989
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Known For
Phoenix. Har/Jar
2023-01-20
Phoenix. Har/Jar
Overview: Documentary on the Romanian rock band Phoenix.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2023-01-20
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The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
2010-10-29
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Overview: The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the National Archives of Romania.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2010-10-29
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30 Years of Democracy
2019-12-22
30 Years of Democracy
Overview: Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the last 30 years since the fall of communism. The end product is a documentary containing footage of political events and historical milestones significant to Romania accompanied by a narrator's voice walking the viewer through the events, and also interviews with Romanian politicians and other influential public figures sharing their thoughts and their different views on those events.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2019-12-22
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Oratorio for Prague
1968-09-29
Oratorio for Prague
Overview: Filmmaker Jan Nemec and his crew risked their lives to create this historic documentary account of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The award-winning work is the only filmed record of the invasion. Oratorio for Prague began as a study of the liberalization of Czechoslovakia and then continued when the Russian forces moved in. The gripping footage was broadcast by television, providing the first report of the event. In addition to the news footage, the film features never-before-viewed scenes taken prior to the invasion that crushed Prague's anti-Communist movement.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-29
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Détour Ceausescu
1990-01-01
Détour Ceausescu
Overview: After the Romanian Revolution reached its peak during the Christmas Holidays of 1989, Romania’s Communist patriarch and his wife Elena were sentenced to death by a military court and accordingly gunned down. Chris Marker’s short video-collage Détour Ceauşescu documents how the execution was depicted by France’s national TV-channel TF1.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Chuck Norris vs Communism
2015-11-12
Chuck Norris vs Communism
Overview: In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2015-11-12
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HyperNormalisation
2016-10-25
HyperNormalisation
Overview: We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now…
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-25
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The Last Days of the Ceaușescus
2010-10-07
The Last Days of the Ceaușescus
Overview: The images of the condemnation and execution of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena on Christmas Day in 1989 are etched deeply in the collective unconscious of several generations of television viewers. Exactly 20 years after its occurrence, the famous show trial was re-enacted in a historically reproduced setting. The film interweaves the stage production with interviews conducted with eyewitnesses and archive material, and takes a look backstage in the Odeon Theatre in Bucharest.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-10-07
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Tovarășu': facerea, gloria și desfacerea unui dictator
2023-12-06
Tovarășu': facerea, gloria și desfacerea unui dictator
Overview: Here is the story of the entire life of Nicolae Ceaușescu, a peasant's son who managed to become the most powerful man in Romania. Including original archival footage and historical re-enactments, the story is told by those who lived it, those who knew him intimately, followed him, served him and carried out his orders: fellow prisoners, " his 'double', personal assistants, his personal security men, those who accompanied him on foreign trips, his translator, advisers, diplomats and family members.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2023-12-06
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Faces of Death VIII
1993-01-01
Faces of Death VIII
Overview: Shockumentary
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Trading Germans
2014-01-08
Trading Germans
Overview: A first hand account of one of the biggest cases of human trafficking during the Cold War. A story of greed, courage, hope and remorse.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-08
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Videograms of a Revolution
1992-08-08
Videograms of a Revolution
Overview: Videograms of a Revolution is a 1992 documentary film compiled by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică from over 125 hours of amateur footage, news footage, and excerpts from the Bucharest TV studio overtaken by demonstrators as part of the December 1989 Romanian counter-revolution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-08-08
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Ceausescu: Behind the Myth
1991-05-14
Ceausescu: Behind the Myth
Overview: Veteran journalist and author Edward Behr spent a year investigating the rise and fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. Executed on Christmas Day 1989, Ceausescu was once a hero to his own people, and in the west. Behr's film reveals the truth behind the myth, in a tale of megalomania, farce, and horror.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-14
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Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy
1968-01-01
Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
2019-11-07
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Overview: The views and thoughts of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have never been more relevant than today. Readers turn to her work for answers as they confront the rise of authoritarian leaders, deal with increasingly intrusive technologies, and discuss climate change. Her books are useful as survival tools for hard times. But few know her private life. Who is the woman behind the stories? How does she always seem to know what is coming?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-07
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De Gaulle, the Last King of France
2017-03-27
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Overview: Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality through the great events of his presidential term, at a time when the world was undergoing considerable changes.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-03-27
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Uppercase Print
2020-02-21
Uppercase Print
Overview: In 1981, chalk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spaces in the Romanian city of Botoşani. They demanded freedom, alluded to the democratic developments taking place in Romania’s socialist sister countries or simply called for improvements in the food supply. Mugur Călinescu was behind them, who was still at school at the time and whose case is documented in the files of the Romanian secret police. Theatre director Gianina Cărbunariu created a documentary play based on this material.
Genres: Drama Documentary History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2020-02-21
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The Certainty of Probabilities
2021-06-14
The Certainty of Probabilities
Overview: 1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the young hippies of Hamburg are harshly criticized by Romanian students, while Nicolae Ceaușescu reads the famous defiance speech against the intervention of the Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia. Floating solemnly over all this is The Internationale, sung on a stadium by a crowd of pioneers dressed in white shirts and red ties. A certainty for each probability: the documentary is at the same time a history lesson and an ideological warning sign, the director’s endeavour permanently draws our attention to the functions of the propaganda film, yet without tarnishing the fascination that dwells in the core of the images, that of the figures that wave at us from a past buried in commonplaces and political parti pris.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2021-06-14
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Eight Postcards from Utopia
2024-08-10
Eight Postcards from Utopia
Overview: A found-footage documentary assembled exclusively out of post-socialist Romanian advertisements, this brings together these documents of Romania’s long transition period, they are made to speak about life, love and death, about the body and human frailty, about nature and the supernatural, about recent history, and, of course, about socialism and capitalism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2024-08-10
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Anatomy of a Departure
2012-08-20
Anatomy of a Departure
Overview: A family who emigrated to Germany, escaping from Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship in Romania, recalls a world without opportunities or hope for the future, of ever-present fear and a constant struggle for survival. They look back on what made them exchange their home for the promise of freedom in an uncertain future.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-08-20
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