Détour Ceausescu (1990)

0.0/10 • 8 min • Documentary

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.

Cast

Elena Ceaușescu

Nicolae Ceaușescu

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