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.
Production
ICON production
Cast & Characters
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Himself
Ion Iliescu
Himself
Elena Ceaușescu
Herself
Ilarion Ciobanu
Himself
Directors & Crew
Raluca Durbacă
Director
Velvet Moraru
Producer
Raluca Durbacă
Writer
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