Notorious Deeds

During the final weeks preceding the Revolution of 1989, the Mihai Viteazul secondary school in Bucharest was shocked by an incident which once more revealed Ceausescu´s totalitarian regime. A student had hung posters in the city depicting the dictator as a dangerous murderer wanted for arrest. Local militia soon captured the instigator. He was delivered to the Securitate – the feared secret service – where procedural machinery was quickly set in motion: Schoolmates were questioned, the Communist youth organization was forced to intervene, the female director of the school was asked to proceed with exmatriculation, his father lost his...

Orig. Title
Faptele sunt cunoscute
Year
2015
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Duration
68 min
Director
Gabriel Tempea
Category
Documentary
Orig. Language
Romanian
Subtitles
English, German
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