The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu DVD (2010)

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

2010

TBC

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The most popular pictures of Nicolae Ceausescu are those showing him in the courtroom in his lawsuit. This fact leads to a proved film plot: A defendant is looking back on his life, while his case becomes more and more of a theatrical production. However, this play has some special effects. Not only is the victim neither Jeanne d'Arc nor Alfred Dreyfus but an abject tyrant. Moreover, every single picture seen and commented by him is a contemporary document. Every spectator will understand after a couple of minutes, that the film consists of documentary takes only and, as the title shows, someone else has written Ceausescu's monologue. While the original material, through the montage, reaches the emotional power known from a motion picture, the hero's fictional monologue aims at the objectivity of the historic document by the most precise reconstruction of its psychological situation. According to my pattern...

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu details

Format:	TBC DVD
Starring:	Nicolae Ceausescu
Director:	Andrei Ujica
Genre:	Documentary - Biography, Political
Studio:	S.C. Icon Production
Original title	Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu