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The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House

November 16, 2011

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The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
dir. Andrei Ujicâ, Romania/Germany, 2010, 35mm, 180 mins, Romanian w/ English subtitles

"Who knew that three hours of coarsely edited Romanian state propaganda culled from the ruinous Ceausescu era between 1965 and 1989 could be so transfixing, illuminating and haunting? Andrei Ujicâ’s extraordinary film eschews context and narration in a wry attempt to fashion a historical chronicle in the same dubiously subjective spirit that the footage was initially conceived" (Time Out London).

Autobiography defies categorization when fragments of reality are edited together from an inventory of images in order to illustrate a higher truth. But what constitutes reality when its images have been stage-managed into baroque pageantry or quasi-Hollywood musicals by a delusional dictator? A radical and chilling project, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu concludes the filmmaker’s trilogy exploring the end of communism which began with the landmark Videograms for a Revolution.