Détour Ceausescu 1990 Directed by Chris Marker

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.

Country France
Production Country France
Language French
Spoken Languages English , French , Romanian
Gnere Documentary
Production Company Les Films du Jeudi
Release Date 1 January 1990
8 mins