Catalogue des films de « Cornel Mihalache »

January 2006, Cluj Napoca. In the centre of the city, on the sidewalk near the monument dedicated to the Heroes of the Revolution, killed in December 1989, two people are chatting. A television reporter approaches them and inquires about the...

The fall of the Communist regime in Romania in December 1989 remains one of the most painful enigmas of the country’s recent history. Was it a "spontaneous" revolution or a carefully planned coup? With this documentary, the director Cornel...

In November 1985, Ursu was beaten to death in his prison cell by his room-mates. One of the aggressors was an informer working for the Militia and the Secret Service, the Securitate. The film combines the interview where the latter gives his...

The Romanian Constantin Brâncu?i (1876 – 1957) was one of the founding figures of modern sculpture and one of the most original artists of the twentieth century. The movie is presenting aspects of the life and creation of this great artist,...

"The Fires of the Dead" The Thursday before Easter, at night, the women of the village made a fire in their yards out of hazel tree branches and afterwards they wept for their dead in the graveyard.

"At Christmas-time, we took our ration of freedom" This was written in the centre of Bucharest during the last days of 1989. It means: At Christmas-time, we took our ration of freedom. It’s a most eloquent phrase. There are two key words in this...