Détour Ceausescu (1990)

Release Date: 1990-01-01
Runtime: 0h 8min
Production Company: Les Films du Jeudi
Production Country: France
Director: 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.