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Détour Ceausescu

Détour Ceausescu

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.

Release Date

January 1, 1990

Status

Released

Original Title

Détour Ceausescu

Runtime

8min

Budget

Revenue

Language

English, French, Romanian

Production Companies

Les Films du Jeudi