Tales from the Golden Age (2009)

Recommended

Romania/France

Short Film Compendium

Original Title: Amintiri din epoca de aur

Directors: Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru

Writer: Cristian Mungiu

Cinematographers: Liviu Marghidan, Oleg Mutu, Alexandru Sterian

Composers: Hanno Höfer, Laco Jimi

Cast: Diana Cavallioti, Radu Iacoban, Vlad Ivanov, Tania Popa, Liliana Mocanu, Alexandru Potocean, Teodor Corban, Emanuel Parvu, Avram Birau, Paul Dunca, Viorel Comanici, Ion Sapdaru, Virginia Mirea, Gabriel Spahiu

Mungiu (who wrote each of the segments and directed one of them) oversees this beautifully human, darkly comic, and surprisingly consistently entertaining collection of five short films (some prints contain a sixth title), exploring the seemingly bizarre act of merely living under Ceausescu’s despotic reign during the final years of communism in Romania. Iain.Stott