Catalogue des films de « Dana Bunescu »

This is a documentary essay composed entirely of archive photographs and documents of the first big massacre of the Jews in Romania: in the city of Iasi, on the 29th of June 1941, more than 10.000 Jews were killed - first by bullets, than by...

Following a tragic fire at the Colectiv Club, Bucharest, on 30 October 2015, more and more victims treated in hospitals ended up dying from injuries that were not supposed to be lethal. A team of investigative journalists took action to expose the...

A deceptively simple set-up: the director and his father watch a 1988 football match which the father refereed, their commentary accompanying the original television images in real time. A Bucharest derby between the country’s leading teams,...

January 1982. François Mitterrand has just been elected and Nicolae Ceausescu has ordered the assassination of two Romanian dissidents and French citizens in Paris: the writers Virgil Tanase and Paul Goma. At the height of the Cold War, the...

"After the Silence" deals with how the effects of dictatorship are still extremely vivid, even after the fall of dictatorship. It is a film about the abuses of the state, about fear, how silence is passed on from one generation to the next. A film...

“After all, a dictator is simply an artist who is able to fully put into practice his egotism. It is a mere question of aesthetic level, whether he turns out to be Baudelaire or Bolintineanu, Louis XVI or Nicolae Ceausescu.” (Andrei...

In 1929, a team led by Professor Dimitrie Gusti made the first sociological documentary in Romania, in the mountain village of Dragus. Forty years later, in communist times, another film is made in the same village. Nowadays, after another forty...

FICTION Dante Lazarescu, sixty-three years old, lives in an apartment with his three cats. On a Saturday night, he feels sick and calls an ambulance. While waiting, he tries out some drugs he had at home, but when running out of it, he rings at...