The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 2, 2013
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Andrei Ujica | |
Screenwriting by | Andrei Ujica |
Entertainment Reviews:
[The film] comprises state visits, speeches and holidays by the former despot, providing a startling sense of dictatorial monomania.
Los Angeles Times
The result is as monumental as it is ephemeral, and not without a certain ghastly pathos.
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The New York Review of Books
Rating: 3.5/4 --
We'll never know what one of history's monsters thought.... But The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu manages somehow to get us into his twisted mind nonetheless.
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Washington Examiner
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Uses Soviet-era lies to uncover buried truths about its subject.
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Washington Post
Rating: 7/10 --
A staggering, monumental, meticulous achievement.
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SSG Syndicate
3.5 stars out of 5 -- [I]mmersive....[C]onsistent as a whole: this is what nearly 35 years of power looked like...
Box Office
As Ujica digs deeper, he enacts a petard-hoisting watchfulness.
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Village Voice
Product Description:
Nicolae Ceausescu was a Communist dictator who ruled Romania with a firm hand from early 1965 (when he rose to power following the death of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej) to late 1989 (when he and his wife were executed following an armed revolt prompted by the shooting of demonstrators by government security forces). Ceausescu had a remarkable talent for self-promotion and manipulating the media; his willingness to sometimes run counter to Soviet policies (he famously defied Russian authority and abandoned Romanian support of the Warsaw Pact early in his rule) made him popular with leaders in the West, and he was able to use his reputation to maintain useful relationships with the U.S.S.R. and China. But Ceausescu's regime was also massively corrupt; his administration was dominated by nepotism and cronyism, his economic policies were little short of disastrous, and he created a cult of personality that shut down any practical debate on his methods and policies until his rule finally collapsed. Filmmaker Andrei Ujica allows the late leader to fully incriminate himself in the documentary AUTOBIOGRAFIA LUI NICOLAE CEAUSESCU (aka THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU), which uses vintage news coverage, footage of Ceausescu's speeches and public appearances and Romanian propaganda films to chart the rise and fall off the dictator's rule, and how he unwittingly revealed his own failings to those who were willing to look. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU received its world premiere at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
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- Sales Rank: 107,297
- UPC: 738329085520
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