The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu
FILM, DOCUMENTARY, BIOGRAPHY
FILM, DOCUMENTARY, BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT
The film explores the image of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu using 1,000 hours of unknown official footage from the National Film Archive and Romanian Television and covers 25 years of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s life, from his installation in power in 1965 until his fall in 1989.
The film explores the image of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu using 1,000 hours of unknown official footage from the National Film Archive and Romanian Television and covers 25 years of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s life, from his installation in power in 1965 until his fall in 1989.
Lacking voice-over or comments from off, Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Autobiography is an essay about the grandeur and absurdity of power, which demonstrates that propaganda images contain in themselves their own contradiction.
IDEA
The classical portrait of Nicolae Ceaușescu that was hanging everywhere during his dictatorship: in the offices of party organizations, classrooms, nursery, kindergarten, medical and law firms.
In addition, we made a booklet with mini-biographies of all the characters that appear in the documentary. Among the 127 figures are Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Prince Charles, North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung and Mao Zedong.
OUTCOME
The editing film had a special screening at Cannes 2010 and excellent chronicles in all major publications around the world.
A spectacular launch in Bucharest, in the Palace Hall (the most important congresses took place here in the time of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s dictatorship), in the presence of over 4,000 spectators.
5,000 spectators in the first weekend in cinemas.
