Nicolae Ceaușescu
Birthday: 1918-01-26
Place of Birth: Scornicești, România
Biography: Nicolae Ceaușescu (5 February [O.S. 23 January] 1918[1] – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and dictator. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last Communist leader of Romania. He was also the country's head of state from 1967, serving as President of the State Council and from 1974 concurrently as President of the Republic, until his overthrow and execution in the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, part of a series of anti-Communist uprisings in Eastern Europe that year.
Movies
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using ...
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30 Years of Democracy
Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the ...
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Oratorio for Prague
A unique document of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, what began as a documentary about t...
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Détour Ceausescu
After the Romanian Revolution reached its peak during the Christmas Holidays of 1989, Romania’s Comm...
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Chuck Norris vs Communism
In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female tran...
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HyperNormalisation
We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They...
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The Last Days of the Ceaușescus
The images of the condemnation and execution of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena on Chr...
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Tovarășu': facerea, gloria și desfacerea unui dictator
Here is the story of the entire life of Nicolae Ceaușescu, a peasant's son who managed to become the...
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Trading Germans
A first hand account of one of the biggest cases of human trafficking during the Cold War. A story o...
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Videograms of a Revolution
A minute-by-minute chronology of the Romanian revolution in December 1989 in Bucharest. This cinemat...
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Ceausescu: Behind the Myth
Veteran journalist and author Edward Behr spent a year investigating the rise and fall of Nicolae C...
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Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
The views and thoughts of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have never been more relevant than today. ...
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De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...
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Uppercase Print
In 1981, chalk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spaces in the Romani...
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The Certainty of Probabilities
1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...
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Anatomy of a Departure
A family who emigrated to Germany, escaping from Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship in Romania, recall...
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Flame of Persia
A film documenting the exorbitant 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire, held in October 1971...
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The death of the Conducător (a Christmas film)
A visual collage following the rise and fall of infamous 20th century Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceau...
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Bright Future
In the summer of 1989, the 13th edition of the World Festival of Youth and Students was held in Pyon...
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