Tales From The Golden Age [2009] trailer

The final 15 years of the Ceausescu regime were the worst in Romania's history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time referred without fail to that period as the golden age...
"Tales From The Golden Age" adapts for screen the most popular urban myths of the period. Comic, bizarre, surprising myths abounded, myths that drew on the often surreal events of everyday life under the communist regime.
Humor is what kept Romanians alive, and "Tales From The Golden Age" aims to re-capture that mood, portraying the survival of a nation having to face every day the twisted logic of a dictatorship.
On the occasion of Ceausescu's working visits, countryside mayors ended up hanging fruit in trees to make sure their villages would be noticed, obeying even the strangest orders from the ferocious Party activists. Communist Party secret regulations stated that in official pictures President Ceausescu couldn't take his hat off in front of the representatives of the rotten capitalistic world, President d'Estaing included. A professional driver decides to open his sealed truck for the first time in his career and discovers the connection between eggs, Easter and marital love. A policeman gets a live pig as gift before Christmas and decides that gas poisoning would be the best way to kill the animal silently amongst his hungry neighbors. In the 80s Romania, Bughi and Crina play Bonnie and Clyde, robbing people of bottled air.
"Tales From The Golden Age" combines several true stories to portray an era during which food was more important than money, freedom more important than love and survival more important than principles.

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[Takac1979]

The best European comedy I saw in years!

[namscop]

Foarte tare:)

[NeluThat70sKid]

HEY EVERYBODY, AT LONG LAST, this is finally available on DVD here in the United States on Amazon, you should check it out :)

Anyways, I've never heard Romanian folk music with a quirky twist before, LOL

[johnb1830]

Romania rocks. To all the hookers at hotel Anul Lui Maunk Iove you. Back soon Numo cineci dollar.

[johnb1830]

Agnostu the sweet fat pig. Ce se faci!

[johnb1830]

Did they really kill that sweet pig? Murderers!

[johnb1830]

It was ironic comedy.

[rtfan13]

i didnt see the funny side!

[agrado100]

Great movie. I went to Romania for vacation after seeing the movie. I was a fan of Romania.

[NeluThat70sKid]

Thanks for loading. As a fourth-generation Romanian here in the States, who's new to Romanian folk music and been gathering it for the past 7 or 8 years (and counting), I've never heard of it with a quirky comical slant before....anyway, multumesc pentru postare. :)

[nameFlo]

@ Shaise.De aia nu merge nimic in tara asta pentru ca peste 50-60 % cred Ceausescu a fost cea mai buna solutie, stati ciumpalacilor si asteptati ca cineva sa va salveze, cineva ca Ceasescu sau Statul , sa vina sa va stearga la curulet ca singuri n-o puteti face, crede-ti ca aveti aceste drepturi din nastere ca cineva sa va stearga si cand nu o fac stati cu c.....t la cur ca habar nu aveti ce se intampla.Golden Past of our country, cand de naiv poti sa fii sa crezi asa ceva

[shaise]

Its just lies - the current dictator Basescu's propaganda. He tries to destroy the golden past of our country . Sadly all the morons believe it to be true . Don't buy his crap you're feeding the corrupt machine that is capitalism . DUMNEZAU SA VA AIBA IN PAZA BUNI ROMANI CRESTINI - CEAUSESCU PENTRU TOTDEAUNA !