The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

Documentary exploring the image of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu using unknown official Communist-era footage from the Romanian National Television and National Film Archives.

"This ingenious found-footage assemblage audaciously documents the Romanian dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauşescu solely by repurposing a treasure trove of official Communist-era newsreels and propaganda. The result is a mordant fiction in which we see Ceauşescu hobnob with the Queen at Buckingham Palace, host President Nixon on a state visit to Bucharest and receive a spectacularly weird, almost psychedelic welcome to North Korea, but see nothing of the bread queues, the overflowing orphanages or the economic ruin that crippled his country." (Source: NZ International Film Festival 2011)

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