Détour Ceausescu (1990)

After the Romanian Revolution reached its peak during the Christmas Holidays of 1989, Romania’s Communist patriarch and his wife Elena were sentenced to death by a military court and accordingly gunned down. Chris Marker’s short video-collage Détour Ceauşescu documents how the execution was depicted by France’s national TV-channel TF1.

Year1990

Runtime8 min

GenresDocumentary

Production countriesFrance

Production companies

Les Films du Jeudi

Détour Ceausescu

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