Ion Iliescu

Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the last 30 years since the fall of communism. The end product is a documentary containing footage of political events and historical milestones significant to Romania accompanied by a narrator's voice walking the viewer through the events, and also interviews with Romanian politicians and other influential public figures sharing their thoughts and their different views on those events.

The first ever presidential debate in Romania

Sa femme Nina ne s'adresse plus à lui que pour lui donner des ordres, son fils Cornel vit au Canada, plein de rancune envers ce père qui ne s'est pas comporté comme il l'aurait voulu au moment où il a fui la Roumanie communiste. Lorsque arrive la médaille d'honneur destinée à récompenser ses actes d'héroïsme supposés au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Ion, qui se souvient à peine de ces temps lointains, sait qu'il s'agit d'une erreur. À partir d'un indice bien mince retrouvé dans une lettre, il finit pourtant par se persuader de la réalité de ses hauts faits et commence à se comporter en héros, bien décidé à retrouver la considération de ses proches.

After the end of the Ceausescu regime, Romania is a country in search of a democratic government that the people can trust, but now it's hard to find someone that is not tainted by the past.

Au cours du procès sommaire auquel il a été soumis avec sa femme, Nicolae Ceausescu passe en revue la période de sa vie pendant laquelle il a été au pouvoir, de 1965 à 1989.

Romania is on the last place in Europe in terms of highway kilometers, but on the first place in the number of deaths in road accidents. Entrepreneur Stefan Mandachi builds 1 meter of highway on his private property.

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the young hippies of Hamburg are harshly criticized by Romanian students, while Nicolae Ceaușescu reads the famous defiance speech against the intervention of the Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia. Floating solemnly over all this is The Internationale, sung on a stadium by a crowd of pioneers dressed in white shirts and red ties. A certainty for each probability: the documentary is at the same time a history lesson and an ideological warning sign, the director’s endeavour permanently draws our attention to the functions of the propaganda film, yet without tarnishing the fascination that dwells in the core of the images, that of the figures that wave at us from a past buried in commonplaces and political parti pris.