On the brink of revolution in 1989 Romania, six lives intersect amid protests and personal struggles, leading to the explosive fall of Ceausescu and the communist regime.
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★★★★★
I very rarely give 10 stars to a movie. But this is the best film about the Romanian Revolution that I have seen. It is exceptional in its achievement, in its settings and for the performance of the actors. Numerous films have been made about the Romanian Revo...
★★★★★
This film is a triumph of Romanian cinema, showcasing a generation of actors who have reached artistic maturity. The film portrays the mood leading up to the 1989 revolution, but without exaggeration, because reality itself was absurd. The way the film manages...
★★★★★
My father tried two times to cross the border (with his friend) during communism, the first time being caught at the border with Yugoslavia and 2nd time being caught in Greece, sent back to Romania, and beaten and interrogated exactly like in the movie. Yester...
★★★★★
This movie feels like 4 shorts mixed into one long feature, but not in a bad way. It presents 4 different stories during the last days of Ceausescu's regime. The director gracefully navigates through the material and unveils many social mechanisms, fears and m...
★★★★★
Is an extraordinary movie that captures the essence of the late 1989, just before the Romanian Revolution. The story follows the lives of people living under Ceausescu's regime, just one day before the events that would change the course of Romania history. Th...
