The Last Days of the Ceaușescus

Overview

The images of the condemnation and execution of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena on Christmas Day in 1989 are etched deeply in the collective unconscious of several generations of television viewers. Exactly 20 years after its occurrence, the famous show trial was re-enacted in a historically reproduced setting. The film interweaves the stage production with interviews conducted with eyewitnesses and archive material, and takes a look backstage in the Odeon Theatre in Bucharest.

Directed by Milo Rau, Marcel Bächtiger

Top cast

Constantin Cojocaru

Nicolae Ceausescu

Victoria Cociaș

Elena Ceausescu

Alexandru Mihăescu

Lawyer

D

Dorin Carlan

Himself

Vlad Chiriac

Constantin Drăgănescu

Cezar Grumăzescu

H

Hans Jurtzik

M

Milos Kostic

I

Ionuț Moldoveanu

E

Eugen Cristian Motriuc

Mircea Rusu

Kristian Nekrasov

T

Thomas Weppel

Elena Ceaușescu

Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Nicolae Ceaușescu

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

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