FilmJanuary 1, 1990Chris Marker
Détour Ceausescu
After the Romanian Revolution reached its peak during the Christmas Holidays of 1989, Romania’s Communist patriarch and his wife Elena were sentenced to death by a military court and accordingly gunned down. Chris Marker’s short video-collage Détour Ceauşescu documents how the execution was depicted by France’s national TV-channel TF1.
About the movie
After the Romanian Revolution reached its peak during the Christmas Holidays of 1989, Romania’s Communist patriarch and his wife Elena were sentenced to death by a military court and accordingly gunned down. Chris Marker’s short video-collage Détour Ceauşescu documents how the execution was depicted by France’s national TV-channel TF1.
ReleasedJanuary 1, 1990
DirectorChris Marker
Runtime8 min
CastElena CeaușescuNicolae Ceaușescu
ProductionLes Films du Jeudi
GenresDocumentary
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