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Détour Ceausescu

1990 8 min French
Wubly rating 6.3 IMDb rating 5.8

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.

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Chris Marker Director

First release January 1, 1990 · Produced in France · Languages English, French, Romanian

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Les Films du Jeudi

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French

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English · French · Romanian

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France · January 1, 1990

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