12:08 East of Bucharest
Romanian New Wave
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1h 25m
Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu | 89 mins | 2006
On the 16th anniversary of the collapse of Nicolae Ceausescu’s oppressive regime just before Christmas, 1989, a TV station in the provincial town of Vaslui, Romania, plans to produce a program on those events, but can only find two “revolutionaries” to interview—one of them a part-time Santa Claus. A sly comedy about history as farce.
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