Tales from the Golden Age ( Amintiri din epoca de aur ) ( Contes de l'âge d'or )

Tales from the Golden Age (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Amintiri din epoca de aur
Alternate Title: Contes de l'âge d'or
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Romanian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
126 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Romania ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Hanno Höfer
Razvan Marculescu
Cristian Mungiu

Written By:
Cristian Mungiu

Actors:
Diana Cavallioti ..... Crina (segment "The Legend of the Air Sellers")
Radu Iacoban ..... Bughi (segment "The Legend of the Air Sellers")
Vlad Ivanov ..... Grigore (segment "The Legend of the Chicken Driver")
Tania Popa ..... Camelia (segment "The Legend of the Chicken Driver")
Liliana Mocanu ..... Marusia (segment "The Legend of the Chicken Driver")
Alexandru Potocean ..... The Secretary (segment "The Legend of the Official Visit")
Teodor Corban ..... The Mayor (segment "The Legend of the Official Visit")
Emanuel Parvu ..... The Party Inspector (segment "The Legend of the Official Visit")
Calin Chirila ..... The Party Activist (segment "The Legend of the Party Activist")
Romeo Tudor ..... The Shepherd (segment "The Legend of the Party Activist")
Avram Birau ..... The Photographer (segment "The Legend of the Party Photographer")
Paul Dunca ..... The Photographer's Assistant (segment "The Legend of the Party Photographer")
Viorel Comanici ..... The Party Secretary (segment "The Legend of the Party Photographer")
Ion Sapdaru ..... Policeman Alexa (segment "The Legend of the Greedy Policeman")
Virginia Mirea ..... Policeman's Wife (segment "The Legend of the Greedy Policeman")

Synopsis:

Conceived and scripted by Palme d'Or winner Cristian Mungiu (4 months, 3 weeks & 2 days), Tales From The Golden Age is a funny, poignant and surreal portrait of 1980's Romania. Shot with tremendous style and spirit, Tales From The Golden Age brilliantly re-captures the mood of an era where undertones of fear, corruption and imprisonment where never far away and where the humour of ordinary citizens played a vital role in facing up to the idiotic logic of the dictatorship. To warm and often hilarious effect, Mungiu combines several urban legends to portray a time during which food was more important than money, freedom more important than love and survival more important than principles. As he does so, he subtly and comically unseats the propagandist myth that Ceausescu's Romania was the "golden age" of communism.

An unconventional personal history of the late communist period in Romania, told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. Comic, bizarre, surprising, these myths drew on the often surreal events of everyday life under the communist regime.

An unconventional personal history of the late Communist period in Romania. |

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 26 February, 2010.

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