Tales from the Golden Age (2009)

Original title

Amintiri din epoca de aur

Directed by

Răzvan Mărculescu, Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, Constantin Popescu

Genre

comedy film, anthology film

Country

Romania

Runtime

2h 18m

Rated

12A

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 84 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Six short stories show absurd situations from the late Communist period in Romania. They are based on urban myths and focus on ordinary people dealing with strange events.

whimsicaldarkly comicnostalgicironicepisodicbittersweetsatiricalgrounded

What happens

Tales from the Golden Age (Romanian: Amintiri din epoca de aur) is a 2009 Romanian omnibus film. It was screened as part of the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. The film is composed of six whimsical, yet blackly comic short stories, each one set in the late Communist period in Romania and based on urban myths from the time, reflecting the perspective of ordinary people. The title of the film refers to the alleged "Golden Age" (by Bolshevik propaganda) of the last 15 years of Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime. Each episode concludes with "legend tells us... ", each item being legend because, of course, no such thing could have happened during the "Golden Age". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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