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TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE (Past Film)
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Completed - ROMANIAN - Historical - 122 minutes

Log Line

Directors : IOANA URICARU; HANNO HÖFER; RAZVAN MARCULESCU; CONSTANTIN POPESCU; CRISTIAN MUNGIU

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2009 (Premiere)
  • Toronto 2009 (Screening)
Full history

Year of production : 2008

Director(s) : Cristian MUNGIU, Constantin POPESCU
Writer(s) : Cristian MUNGIU
Cast : Diana CAVALIOTTI, Radu IACOBAN, Vlad IVANOV

Producer(s) : Cristian MUNGIU (MOBRA FILMS), Oleg MUTU (MOBRA FILMS)

Synopsis

Tales From the Golden Age - from the creators of 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS
Tales from the Golden Age will be an unconventional personal history of the late communist period in Romania, told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. Comic, bizarre, twisted, these myths life under the communist regime. Humor is what kept Romanians alive, and Tales from the Golden Age aims to re-capture that mood, to re-create the era in a powerful and evocative way as it portrays the survival of a nation having to face every day the grotesque logic of a dictatorship.
Tales from the Golden Age is composed of six independent yet sometimes connected short stories - connected by mood, narrative pattern and the details of the historical period: the only car you can see on the streets is the locally produced Dacia, the daily TV program is just two hours long, everybody steals from the state, food is more important than money, party orders must be obeyed no matter how illogical or absurd. The people appear grim yet deep inside they are alive, they desire to love and to be loved.
The last 15 years of the Ceausescu regime were the worst in Romania’s history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time referred without fail to that period The Golden Age.

Production

Country(ies) : ROMANIA

BELGIUM Mar 03, 2010 IMAGINE FILM DI
BOSNIA AND SARAJEVO FILM F
BOSNIA AND OBALA ART CENTA
CANADA MÉTROPOLE FILMS
DENMARK Jul 22, 2010 OST FOR PARADIS
FRANCE Dec 30, 2009 LE PACTE
INDIA ALLIANCE MEDIA
ITALY Sep 18, 2009 ARCHIBALD ENTER
NETHERLAND SEPTEMBER FILM
NORWAY Aug 06, 2010 TOUR DE FORCE A
PORTUGAL MIDAS FILMES
SPAIN Dec 17, 2010 CINES RENOIR
TAIWAN SWALLOW WINGS F
UNITED KIN Oct 30, 2009 TRINITY FILMED


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Festivals and Awards

Festival de Cannes 2009 Un Certain Regard


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