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The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

Kino Lorber • 3h 7m

Directed by Andrei Ujica • Documentary • 2011 • 180 minutes

A monumental achievement, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU tracks the rise and fall of the infamous Romanian dictator through his own propaganda footage. Writer and director Andrei Ujica, along with editor Dana Bunescu, crafted over 1,000 hours of official state broadcasts and intimate home movies into a three-hour tour-de-force that depicts how Ceausescu created the country in his own image, regardless of the cost to its citizens. His rapid ascent to power is aided by rubber stampt parliamentary meetings and celebrated in garish visits to Communist allies including North Korea. A hero in his mind, Ceausescu is combative, vain, and unquestioningly in control. This "brilliant documentary" (The New York Times) shows the brutal psychology of a dictator, a narcissism in which his subjects are seen but never heard. That is, until their off-screen discontent results in revolution, and Ceausescu is left muttering denials of his life and his crime.

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documentary, documentary films, expository, history, kino lorber, ovid, politics and political science, propaganda, romania, s_0074, s_0231, s_0260, s_0384, social psychology, the autobiography of nicolae ceausescu, title_a

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