The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu: Film Screening at the UCR Culver Center of the Arts

Jan 20, 2012 – Jan 21, 2012
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Director: Andrei Ujica

Director Andrei Ujica poured over 1,000 hours of footage, including state propaganda, newsreels and home movies, to complete a film about the former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. The resulting “avant-documentary” presents the story of Ceausescu’s rise and fall as well as the history of the media manipulation that made it possible.

“Uses Soviet-era lies to uncover buried truths about its subject.”
- Ann Hornaday
Washington Post

“The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu is all about created perception, and Ujică brilliantly manages to craft a film that is not just about a real character, but a formal reflection of its subject.”
- Ian Buckwalter
DCist

Offical Selection Cannes and New York Film Festival, 2010

Romania/Germany | 180 minutes | Unrated

http://culvercenter.ucr.edu/film/?event-ID=3.2011.0011.0003

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