Tales From the Golden Age

Title: Tales From the Golden Age

Genre: Comedy

Directed by Cristian Mungiu.

Script: Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Höffer, Razvan Marculescu, Constantin Popescu and Cristian Mungiu.

Stars: Alexandru Potocean, Teo Corban, Emanuel Pirvu, Avram Birau, Paul Dunca, Viorel Comanici, Vladimir Ivanov, Tania Popa, Liliana Mocanu, Ion Sapdaru, Virginia Mirea, Gabriel Spahiu, Diana Cavalioti, Radu Iacoban.

Nationality: Romania.

STORYLINE

                The last fifteen years of the Ceausescu’s regime were the worst in the history of Romania. However, the propaganda machine of the time inevitably referred to that period as “the golden age”.

                Before the visits of Ceausescu, the mayors of the towns have to work hard to highlight their villages and also the have to follow the orders of the most extravagant fanatic party activists that make pre-hearing inspection official. According to the international rules of the Communist Party in public images, the president Ceausescu cannot take his hat off to the representatives of the corrupt capitalist world, including President Giscard d’Estaing. A hens’ carrier decides to open his trailer trucked for the first time and discover a link between eggs, Easter and conjugal love. A policeman received a pig as a Christmas present and he decides that the best form of kill it, silently and without alerting his neighbors, is to poison it with gas. In the Romania of the 80sBughi and Crina dedicated to dupe people into believing that air of neighbors and sell them.

This is the perfect combination of several true stories that go back to a time when food was more important than money, freedom more important than love and survival more important than principles.