The Certainty of Probabilities
2021•1h 30m•6.0•Released
Documentary
1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the young hippies of Hamburg are harshly criticized by Romanian students, while Nicolae Ceaușescu reads the famous defiance speech against the intervention of the Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia. Floating solemnly over all this is The Internationale, sung on a stadium by a crowd of pioneers dressed in white shirts and red ties. A certainty for each probability: the documentary is at the same time a history lesson and an ideological warning sign, the director’s endeavour permanently draws our attention to the functions of the propaganda film, yet without tarnishing the fascination that dwells in the core of the images, that of the figures that wave at us from a past buried in commonplaces and political parti pris.
Director
Raluca Durbacă
Writer
Raluca Durbacă
Languages
Romanian
Studio
ICON production
Cast
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Himself
Ion Iliescu
Himself
Elena Ceaușescu
Herself
Ilarion Ciobanu
Himself
Production
Company
ICON production
Producer
Velvet Moraru
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