Category
Feature, Fiction
Rnning Time
138
Genre
Comedy
Year
2009
Directors
Hanno Hofer, Razvan Mărculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru
Scripwriter
Cristian Mungiu
Cristian Mungiu
Festivals
Premiere at Cannes International Film Festival / Un Certain Regard
Screened in more than 28 festivals – Sarajevo, London, Munich, Morelia/ Mexico, Warsaw, Goa/ India, Rotterdam, Toronto, Prague, New York, Stockholm, Lisbon, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi
The film was sold in more than 25 territories
The Romanian film having the biggest box office and the highest audience in 2009 in Romania
Oleg Mutu, Liviu Mărghidan, Alexandru Sterian
Art Directors
Cezara Armasu, Dana Istrate, Simona Pădurețu, Mihaela Poenaru
Editors
Dana Bunescu,Theodora Penciu, Ioana Uricaru
Sound Designer
Dana Bunescu, Marius Leftărache,Laura Lăzărescu
Costumes
Brândușa Ioan, Ana Ioneci, Dana Istrate, Luminița Mihai
Hair & Make-up
Lidia Ivanov, Cristina Temelie, Beti Făcăianu, Cristina Ilie
Cast
Diana Cavallioti, Radu Iacoban, Vlad Ivanov, Tania Popa, Liliana Mocanu, Alexandru Potocean, Teodor Corban, Emanuel Pârvuxs
Produced by
Pascal Caucheteux, Cristian Mungiu, Oleg Mutu, Alexandru Teodorescu
Synopsis
Tales from the Golden Age consists of six different short stories happening in the same historical period and following the same narrative pattern.
The screenplays have, as starting point, Romanian urban legends from the late communist period – popular and sometimes humoresque stories believed to be true.
Comic, bizarre, surprising, these myths drew on the often surreal events of everyday life under the communist regime. Humor is what kept Romanians alive, and Tales from the Golden Age aims to re-capture that mood, portraying the survival of a nation having to face every day the twisted logic of a dictatorship.
The last 15 years of Nicolae Ceauşescu’s regime were the worst in Romania’s history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time referred without fail to that period as The Golden Age.
