Movie

Détour Ceausescu

After the Romanian Revolution reached its peak during the Christmas Holidays of 1989, Romania’s Communist patriarch and his wife Elena were sentenced to death by a military court and accordingly gunned down. Chris Marker’s short video-collage Détour Ceauşescu documents how the execution was depicted by France’s national TV-channel TF1.

Director

Chris Marker

Screenplay

Chris Marker

Status

Released

Release date

01/01/1990

Original language

French