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Nostalgia for Dictatorship

2020 · 90 min

A thoughtful, talk-heavy documentary that asks you to sit with uncomfortable questions about why people miss oppressive systems.

Directed by
Marius Th. Barna
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Attila Gáspárik, Ada Milea, Mihaela Miroiu
Overview
Several decades after the collapse of the communist system, nostalgia for the former regime has reached unimaginable proportions in almost all former communist European countries. The documentary Nostalgia for Dictatorship does not limit itself to presenting this genuine syndrome of "longing for dictatorship", but, in parallel with the opinions and motivations of ordinary citizens living in the former communist space, it advances explanations by researchers from various fields, sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, ethologists, etc., regarding the intimate motivations of such a paradoxical feeling.

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Directed by
Marius Th. Barna
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Attila Gáspárik, Ada Milea, Mihaela Miroiu
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    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • politics
    • memory
    • identity
    • power
    • freedom
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    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Humour2
    Realism9
    Romance0
    Tension3
    Darkness5
    Complexity6
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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Marius Th. Barna
    Written by
    Bogdan Ficeac
    Starring
    Attila Gáspárik, Ada Milea, Mihaela Miroiu, Dorel Vișan
    Runtime
    90 min
    Languages
    Romanian

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