Based on urban myths of Communist era Romania, Tales from the Golden Age presents five individually directed segments detailing comic, surreal and warm-hearted tales such as The Legend of the Chicken Driver and The Legend of the Greedy Policeman.
Reviews
“A fine example of the recent trend for East European directors to re-explore the sometimes-forgotten Communist histories of their countries. […] Most of these films are very funny, and all of them are sharp-eyed and hugely revealing. This is the rare portmanteau that’s more than the sum of its parts. ****” Sukhdev Sandhu, The Telegraph
“A multi-episode portmanteau comically unseating the propagandist myth that Ceausescu’s Romania was the “golden age” of communism, Tales From The Golden Age is another notch in the country’s film-making renaissance which focuses on day-to-day life under the dictatorship to warm and often hilarious effect. Written by Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, who also directed one of the segments” Mike Goodridge, Screen International