Elena Ceaușescu

Elena Ceaușescu

Movies for Elena Ceaușescu...

Title: Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 6, 2023
Type: TV
In-depth documentary mini-series presenting the rise, rule and fall of communist Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and the way he shaped both Romanian and international history.
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The Certainty of Probabilities
Title: The Certainty of Probabilities
Character: Herself
Released: June 14, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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30 Years of Democracy
Title: 30 Years of Democracy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 22, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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HyperNormalisation
Title: HyperNormalisation
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 25, 2016
Type: Movie
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…
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Trading Germans
Title: Trading Germans
Character: Herself (archive footage)
Released: January 8, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Title: The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Character: Herself (archive footage)
Released: October 29, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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The Last Day
Title: The Last Day
Released: February 2, 1993
Type: Movie
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Videograms of a Revolution
Title: Videograms of a Revolution
Character: herself (archive footage)
Released: August 8, 1992
Type: Movie
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 Revolution.
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Ceausescu: Behind the Myth
Title: Ceausescu: Behind the Myth
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 14, 1991
Type: Movie
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.
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Détour Ceausescu
Title: Détour Ceausescu
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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.