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THE NEW ROMANIAN WAVE, CAPITAL FOCUS AWARD Tales from the Golden Age
CRISTIAN MUNGIU , IOANA URICARU , HANNO HOFER, CONSTANTIN POPESCU
In Romanian with English subtitles
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Instead of wasting energy bad-mouthing Romania's communist regime, Tales from the Golden Age takes an affectionate look at the absurdity it wrought. Divided into five episodes, the film adapts well-known urban legends to recreate the period of rule by Nicolae Ceausescu, ironically referred to as the "golden age" of Romania's history. Mixing hilarity with underlying apprehension, the first episode documents a town's frenetic preparations for an official state visit. Taking us a step closer to government headquarters is a story about the events that hindered the party paper from getting published one day. We next follow a conscientious truck driver who is forbidden to make any stops on his long voyage. Demonstrating the relationship between politics and food, a police officer decides he must devise a way to silently kill a pig. The final installment follows a Bonnie-and-Clyde-like couple as they con people out of their empty bottles. —Toronto International Film Festival