Tales From The Golden Age
Director: Cristian Mungiu, Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculesc
Starring: Tania Popa, Liliana Mocanu, Alexandru Potocean
Romania, 2008, 2 hours 11 mins, Romanian with English subtitles
A collection of five wry and amusing urban myths that circulated under Ceausescu’s paranoid regime, the period he called ‘The Golden Age of the Romanian People’. Full of bleak humour, (with titles like ‘The Legend of the Official Visit’, ‘The Legend of the Greedy Policeman’), these stories poke fun at the bizarre lengths people had to go to survive in Romania. From the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, this has a similar blend of the extraordinary just beneath the surface of the everyday. Inevitably, in a country where food is short, a recurring theme is the lengths people will go to find it – one tense tale tells of a family’s attempt to slaughter a pig in their flat without the neighbour’s hearing. Simply told with well-drawn characters these well-judged stories have an easy charm and a telling take on what makes people tick.
Pum chwedl ddifyr a oedd yn bodoli adeg Ceacescu, yn llawn hiwmor llwm am yr eithafion roedd yn rhaid i bobl ymlafnio tuag atynt i oroesi. Mae’r straeon yn rhai absẃrd ond llawn cydymdeimlad sy’n darlunio cyfnod arbennig a’r cymeriadau oedd yn deillio o’r cyfnod hwnnw.
Wendy Ide The Times
| Screenings |
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| Aberystwyth Arts Centre | 2010-03-16 | 20:15:00 |
| Theatr Harlech | 2010-03-18 | 20:00:00 |
| Theatr Mwldan | 2010-03-21 | 17:50:00 |
| Theatr Mwldan | 2010-03-23 | 20:40:00 |
| The Courtyard, Hereford | 2010-03-12 | 13:45:00 |
| The Courtyard, Hereford | 2010-03-13 | 14:30:00 |
