Tales from the Golden Age
Dir: Cristian Mungiu, Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Constantin Popescu
2011
*****
Tales from the Golden Age is a great collection of short films based on urban myths/folk tales from the Ceausescu regime (referred to as The Golden Age by communists) when Romania was under communist rule. Each short film is quirky, funny, a little strange and very entertaining, much like how folk tales are. It's a brilliantly conceived idea and very easy to understand no matter how good your understanding of Romanian history is. The first film I found particularly funny, I really do hope that particular urban-myth is based on fact!