Amintiri din epoca de aur (Tales from the Golden Age)
Winter 2011 Features series
Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 4:00pm
Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 7:00pm
Acadia Cinema's Al Whittle Theatre
450 Main Street, Wolfville, NS
Directed by Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru
Screenplay by Cristian Mungiu
Starring Diana Cavallioti, Radu Iacoban and Vlad Ivanov
Rated NR ·
2h 35m
Romania, France
Romanian
Amintiri din epoca de aur (Tales from the Golden Age)
The final 15 years of the Ceausescu regime were the worst in Romania’s history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time referred without fail to that period as “the golden age”…
Tales from the Golden Age adapts for screen the most popular urban myths of the period. Comic, bizarre, surprising myths abounded, myths that drew on the often surreal events of everyday life under the communist regime.
Humor is what kept Romanians alive, and Tales from the Golden Age aims to re-capture that mood, portraying the survival of a nation having to face every day the twisted logic of a dictatorship.
Tales from the Golden Age combines several true stories to portray an era during which food was more important than money, freedom more important than love and survival more important than principles.