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Détour Ceausescu

1990

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Overview

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.

Release Date

January 1, 1990

Director

Chris Marker

Runtime

8 minutes

Cast

Elena CeaușescuNicolae Ceaușescu

Production

Les Films du Jeudi

Genres

Documentary

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