The Certainty of Probabilities

The Certainty of Probabilities

2021 ro 90 minutes

Rating: 6

Plot

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the young hippies of Hamburg are harshly criticized by Romanian students, while Nicolae Ceaușescu reads the famous defiance speech against the intervention of the Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia. Floating solemnly over all this is The Internationale, sung on a stadium by a crowd of pioneers dressed in white shirts and red ties. A certainty for each probability: the documentary is at the same time a history lesson and an ideological warning sign, the director’s endeavour permanently draws our attention to the functions of the propaganda film, yet without tarnishing the fascination that dwells in the core of the images, that of the figures that wave at us from a past buried in commonplaces and political parti pris.

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Cast

Nicolae Ceaușescu

Nicolae Ceaușescu

Himself

Ion Iliescu

Ion Iliescu

Himself

Elena Ceaușescu

Elena Ceaușescu

Herself

Ilarion Ciobanu

Ilarion Ciobanu

Himself

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