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12:08 East of Bucharest
12:08 East of Bucharest
Mircea Andreescu / DVD / NR / 2006
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Rating
NR
Format
DVD
Year Released
2006
Run Time
89 min
Stars
Mircea Andreescu, Teo Corban, Ion Sapdaru, Mirela Cioaba, Luminita Gheorghiu
Director
Corneliu Porumboiu
Color
Color
Editor
Roxana Szel
Special Effects
Mihai Reti, Florin Stoian
Language
RO
Subtitles
English/Espanol
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Gil-Scott Heron
once wrote "the revolution will not be televised," but one Romanian newsman attempts to put his nation's revolution on the air after the fact in this satiric
comedy
from writer and director
Corneliu Porumboiu
. It's the sixteenth anniversary of the revolt that removed Communist dictator
Nicolae Ceausescu
from power in Romania, and
Jderescu
(
Ion Sapdaru
) is the host of a televised public affairs show who wants to do a special program on the revolution.
Jderescu
's idea is to bring on a handful of ordinary citizens to discuss their role in
Ceausescu
's overthrow and how their lives have changed since Communist rule was swept from Romania. However,
Jderescu
can only round up two guests for his broadcast -- elderly
Piscoci
(
Mircea Andreescu
), who's more interested in playing Santa Claus for the neighborhood kids than talking politics, and
Manescu
(
Teo Corban
), a schoolteacher nursing a brutal hangover. As
Jderescu
tries to lead a serious discussion of how Romania has changed since
Ceausescu
was driven from power, the conversation wanders off on a tangent about where the revolution actually took place, and the waters become even more muddied when
Jderescu
opens up the phone lines for questions from viewers, most of whom have their own distinct (and strongly conflicting) memories of the Revolution . . . and one of which has a bone to pick with
Manescu
over some drunken insults he hurled the night before.
A Fost Sau n-a Fost?
(aka
12:08 East of Bucharest
) received its North American premier at the 2006
Toronto Film Festival
. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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