Romanian filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu grapples with his country's troubled recent past in this wonderfully droll, Cannes Camera d'Or winner about a local TV station owner who attempts to define the events of December 22, 1989.
December 22, 2005. It's the 16th anniversary of the violent revolution that ousted and executed Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and tiny TV station owner Virgil Jderescu (Teodor Corban) is preparing for his afternoon call-in talk show, "Issue of the Day." To commemorate the date, Jderescu's hopes to conduct a live, in-studio interview with two witnesses about what exactly occurred. The revolution did succeed in ending 22 years of...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
89 mins