THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUȘESCU
BALTIMORE PREMIERE
REVIVAL SERIES
“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.” — Time Out London (5 Stars out of 5)
SHOWTIMES:
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 10:30 AM;
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 7 PM;
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 9 PM.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU (2010 Andrei Ujica) 1.85:1, Color and bw. 180m.
“Autobiography defies categorization and functions closest to a Vertovian “film-object” wherein fragments of reality are edited together from an inventory of images in order to illustrate a higher truth. But what constitutes reality when its images have been stage-managed into baroque pageantry or quasi-Hollywood musicals by a delusional dictator?
"Four years in the making and culled from one thousand hours of archival footage—both state sanctioned and private—this spellbinding adventure unfolds as if from the nostalgic, solipsistic memory of Ceausescu himself.” — Andréa Picard, Toronto International Film Festival
The Charles Theater
410-727-FILM
1711 N Charles St
Baltimore`, MD 21201
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