Thursday, November 18, 2010

Tales from the Golden Age (2009)

Tales from the Golden Age / Amintiri din epoca de aur (2009)


Genre: Comedy
Director: Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru
Starring: Diana Cavallioti, Radu Iacoban, Vlad Ivanov, Tania Popa
Duration: 147 min.
Rating: 7.9/10

Summary:
An anthology of six short films, retelling urban legends from the late communist era in Romania.  A period that the communist propaganda at the time referred to as the Golden Age.

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Tales from the Golden Age is a group effort assembled by Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days).  While much of the detail will be missed by those of us who did not live behind the Iron Curtain, they paint a picture of what that life may have been like.  Subjects and stories that may be funny today but were serious and common situations during that time.   












  

10 comments:

Politricks77 said...

looks very interesting

Rahul said...

awesome...the more i check your post the more i like it....the design and presentation is very good

Bonjour Tristesse said...

Thanks for the kind words.

Yllsa said...

Ooh this one sounds really good!

Loneislander777 said...

Looks really interesting based on the screen shots.

The Angry Vegetarian said...

This looks really good. I need to try to get my hands on this.

Adalmin said...

I immediately spotted the pig in the living room first, haha. Also, Communism is really interesting to me - reading about China and Russia during those times is both fascinating and depressing.

Definitely checking this out!

Bonjour Tristesse said...

A smuggled pig, who that family is trying to slaughter quietly, so they wont have to share it with the entire apartment block. Meat was a scarce commodity in those times, because the government exported it all as part of an effort to pay off the national debt.

Skullkiddan said...

Sweetness. I have always wondered what it would be like to live under a communist regime during the Cold War. I suppose movies are probably going to be the best bet behind a good novel to help me feel the iron fist crushing my soul.

Bonjour Tristesse said...

Yeah, fortunately we only have to see it through fiction.

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