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The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Directed by
Andrei Ujică
Not Rated
2010
3h
Biography
,
Documentary
,
and more
7.5
89%
67%
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The film explores the image of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu using unknown official footage from the Romanian National Television and National Film Archives.
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Cast of The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Himself (archive footage)
Elena Ceaușescu
Herself (archive footage)
Leonid Brezhnev
Himself (archive footage)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Kim Il-sung
Ion Iliescu
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Self (archive footage)
Andrei Ujică
Director / Writer
Velvet Moraru
Producer
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu Ratings & Reviews
Filmmaker Magazine
Vadim Rizov
Ceaușescu copmiles the self-deception of a leader and his snowballing of an entire nation over a decades-long span, avoiding easy ironies and capturing the political and social flavor of an era.
The Baffler
A.S. Hamrah
The best documentaries go beyond all that and exist in the realms of the visionary or the minutely detailed and exhaustive, where both intense concentration and a kind of dream state are necessary and rewarded.
Washington Examiner
Kelly Jane Torrance
We'll never know what one of history's monsters thought.... But The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu manages somehow to get us into his twisted mind nonetheless.
The New York Review of Books
J. Hoberman
The result is as monumental as it is ephemeral, and not without a certain ghastly pathos.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Philip Martin
...an odd and absorbing film that comes perilously close to fulfilling the promise of its cheeky title (
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
It leaves us almost gasping with its impudence.
SSG Syndicate
Susan Granger
A staggering, monumental, meticulous achievement.
DCist
Ian Buckwalter
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu is all about created perception, and Ujică brilliantly manages to craft a film that is not just about a real character, but a formal reflection of its subject.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Uses Soviet-era lies to uncover buried truths about its subject.
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
With its hefty running time, the film builds an unexpected emotional resonance, though never exactly sympathy...
Village Voice
Nicolas Rapold
As Ujica digs deeper, he enacts a petard-hoisting watchfulness.
IFC.com
Matt Singer
A powerful indictment of politically manipulated media.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
A cinematic tour de force that tracks the rise, reign and grim fall of its subject.
Film Journal International
David Noh
This depiction of a dictator's life is one very long, intermittently rewarding haul.
AV Club
Noel Murray
The impression Autobiography gives is of the banality of malice, buried within staged celebrations and dry bureaucratic business.
Slant Magazine
Michael Nordine
The conviction that this is a documentary that needed to be made and presented just so is ultimately quite persuasive.
Boxoffice Magazine
Vadim Rizov
It's an immersive, deliberately myopic portrait.
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