Film

Détour Ceausescu

19908mDocumentary

Director: Chris Marker
Year: 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.

Top cast

Elena Ceaușescu

Nicolae Ceaușescu

Directed by

Chris Marker

Written by

Chris Marker