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Title: The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
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| Nicolae Ceausescu | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Elena Ceausescu | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Stefan Andrei | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Gheorghe Apostol | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Ana Aslan | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Ion Avram | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Iosif Banc | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Eugen Barbu | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Elena Barbulescu | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Lica Barbulescu | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Alexandru Barladeanu | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Ion Birlea | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Emil Bobu | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Emil Bodnaras | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Leonid Brezhnev | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
During the summary trial that he and his wife were submitted to, Nicolae Ceausescu is reviewing his long reign in power: 1965-1989. From a formal point of view, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu proves that it is possible to only use existing images to yield films focused on recent history, yet with an epic vein similar to that of the historical fiction cinema. This is an eminently syntactic endeavor, where montage plays a twofold part: mise-en-scene, as it builds scenes that do not exist as such in the rushes, and classical editing, connecting scenes together. Written by Cannes Film Festival
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Maybe an explanation of the long duration is this: the duration of the movie is part of the message of the movie. I grew up partly during those times in Romania. Having watched this movie now reminds about the dread of many moments that I lived through, especially of the repetitive propaganda that we all had to listen to every day (2 hours of TV program daily, 90% of the time with his face on the screen). The title of the movie – autobiography – suggests that this is how the title character would have made this movie: in the same egotistic way that he ignored the Romanian population during his dictatorship.