Writer
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.
Director
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.
Production Manager
"Дворец для народа" рассказывает истории пяти зданий - символов социалистической эпохи, свидетелей истории Восточной Европы второй половины XX века. Национальный дворец культуры в Софии, Московский государственный университет, Дворец Парламента в Бухаресте, Дворец Сербии в Белграде, Дворец Республики в Берлине - уникальные архитектурные объекты, которые были призваны напомнить людям о том, что есть высшая власть и светлое будущее. Каждое из них - самое высокое или самое большое, или с самыми большими часами на планете, или построено по самой передовой технологии. Но режим, при котором они были построены, кончился, и настало время раскрыть их секреты.
