Fiction

A FOST SAU N-A FOST?

12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST
Corneliu Porumboiu
RO 2006
89 min
V'06

The whole country watched live on television as angry crowds forced Romanian dictator Ceausescu to flee Bucharest by helicopter. In a quiet town east of the capital, sixteen years since this historic day, the owner of the local TV station invites two guests to share their moments of revolutionary glory. One is an old retiree and parttime Santa Claus, the other a history teacher who has just devoted his entire salary to his drinking debts. Together they will remember the day when they stormed their town hall calling «Down with Ceausescu». But phone-in viewers dispute the claims of the heroes, who may have been boozing in the bar or making Christmas preparations rather than rebelling in the streets.

Credits
  • Mircea Andreescu - Piscoci
  • Teo Corban - Jderescu
  • Ion Sapdaru - Manescu
  • Corneliu Porumboiu
  • Marius Panduru
  • Sebastian Zsemlye
  • Alex Dragomir
  • Roxana Szel
  • Rotaria
  • Daniel Raduta
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