20.10.2026 at 19:15. Prompted Reality 4: Détour Ceaușescu, Nicolae, Rodina, Small Hall 2

Time and place

Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 19:15

Rodina Cinema Centre – Small Hall 2: Karavannaya Street, 12

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Description

DÉTOUR CEAUȘESCU

1990, 8 min., France; short-length documentary

Director: Chris Marker

NICOLAE

2022, 45 min., France; full-length documentary

Director: Mihai Grecu

Détour Ceaușescu

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Chris Marker

Year: 1990

Country: France

Duration: 8 min.

Description

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.

About the director:

Chris Marker

Chris Marker (1921–2012, France) is regarded as one of the most innovative makers of fiction and documentary film of the 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for the award-winning Sans soleil (1983), a film about human memory. His documentaries on Beijing, Siberia, and Cuba have become classics. Little is known of his life: Marker (the pseudonym of Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve) avoided interviews and invented facts of his own biography. Before focusing, in the early 1950s, on non-dogmatic, Marxist-oriented documentaries, he wrote several articles, essays, poems, and a novel.

Nicolae

Genres: Documentary, Full-length

Director: Mihai Grecu

Year: 2022

Country: France

Duration: 45 min.

Description

The late dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, who died in 1989, resurrects in 2021 as a hologram to address the contemporary inhabitants of a small Romanian village.

About the director:

Mihai Grecu

A director and artist, Grecu studied art and design in Romania and France and continued his education at the Le Fresnoy Studio Nacional. In his visual and poetic journeys, Grecu explores the mysterious subconscious beginnings. The central themes in his works include environmental crisis, political allegories, new technologies, and disasters. Grecu’s films have been screened and awarded at numerous festivals, including Tribeca, Locarno, Rotterdam, and the Montreal New Film Festival. In 2013, he received a prize in the experimental film competition at Message to Man, where he later was a jury member. In 2022, his film Nicolae received a special prize from the international competition jury.