Romanian films
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The Autobiography of Nicolae Caesescu
Winter 2025
Andrei Ujica
The Autobiography of Nicolae Caesescu
Andrei Ujica
Written and directed by Andrei Ujica
Editing and sound design: Dana Bunescu
Archival research: Titus Muntean
Visual consultant: Vivi Dragan Vasile RSC
Colorist: Roberta Raduca
Producer: Velvet Moraru
“Who knew that three hours of coarsely edited Romanian state propaganda culled from the ruinous Ceaucescu era between 1965 and 1989 could be so transfixing, illuminating and haunting? Andrei Ujicâ’s extraordinary film eschews context and narration in a wry attempt to fashion a historical chronicle in the same dubiously subjective spirit that the footage was initially conceived.”
“As sometimes happens, some of the finest movies in the festival are being presented outside the main event, including “The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu.” Andrei Ujica opens this found-footage documentary with smeary color images of that former Romanian dictator shortly after his arrest in 1989 and then cuts to stark, silent, gripping black-and-white images, shot from on
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Reviews of documentary film The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu, and a new history of Romania, Children of the Night.
Anyone remotely familiar with recent Romanian history will learn little from Andrei Ujica’s 2011 epic The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu, which since November 1 has been available on streaming platform Netflix. (In some regions, at least. If you get the all-too-common ‘not available in your country’ message on Netflix, the full film is here, albeit in poor resolution).
The premise of the film was to make a thorough biography of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s period as Romanian leader using only official footage. Hence autobiography.
Yet with the exception of the fact that Ceaușescu could do wit if he wanted to, we learnt nothing new over the course of the three hours the film lasts. Even casual observers of Romania are likely to have seen much of the footage featured, and will be aware of the events being documented.
Indeed, this is just as well, for you will actually need to know your Romanian history from 1965-89 to make head
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The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu
2010 Romanian film
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu (Romanian: Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceaușescu) is a 2010 Romaniandocumentary film directed by Andrei Ujică.[2][3]
Summary
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.[4]
Awards
- The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu was awarded the Great Prize of the documentary section of the Bergen International Film Festival.
- In 2010, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu won the Best East European Documentary Award at the 14th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava, the Czech Republic.[5]
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