One of the most original European filmmakers over the past two decades, Andrei Ujica has, in The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu, produced a worthy and innovative addition to contemporary documentary filmmaking. Composed from over 1000 hours of footage from the Romanian National Film archive, Ujica masterfully unveils the rise, dominance and precipitous fall of one of European communism’s most notorious dictators. With the exception of the video footage of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu’s impromptu trial which bookends the film, all the footage used had been approved by the state censors, or is private footage shot by intimates of the Ceauşescu family.
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu
Directed by Andrei Ujica