Category Archives: History
A Romanian idea for an Oscar movie
Since primary school Romanian kids read, learn and study an old legend, a story that can be a good subject for a Hollywood horror movie. It is about a builder in an impossible mission: Manole, a well known professional, promised the king to build the most beautiful and impressive monastery in a place where bad [...]
Nicolae Ceausescu’s autobiography
“Cinema’s propagandistic power is in full effect in Andrei Ujica’s montage epic, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu, a contemporary fresco starring Romania’s fallen ruler and his wife, Elena. A radical and chilling project, the film concludes the filmmaker’s trilogy exploring the end of communism which began with the landmark Videograms for a Revolution, co-directed with [...]
The Cave with Bones
Title sounds quite vampirical, doesn’t it. Actually, it’s about something quite human, and that from before the vampire age. That is, if you believe that humans 40,500 years ago hadn’t engaged on the vampire route just yet. The Cave with Bones, discovered in 2002 close to Anina in South-Western Romania was the finding place of [...]
The Lost State of American Transylvania
Did you know that, with a little bit of (bad) luck, the American state Kentucky could have been called “Transylvania”? Not only would we have lost exclusivity to this name, but also fame and touristic potential – Kentucky would have been certainly full of Draculian theme parks by now, and 95% of the world population [...]
Videograms of a Revolution
Amidst a tense climate following protests in Timisoara which had started on Dec. 15th, on December 21st, 1989, Nicolae Ceaușescu holds a speech in front of an as-huge-as-usual crowd of supposedly machine-like applauding people. Yet this time something goes wrong. Inconceivably wrong. After 20 years, these images seem almost like from a movie. Yet they [...]
Their names mean freedom
On December 18th, 1989, Romania was frozen. Not necessarily because of the weather – it was a much milder winter than in other years – but because of several other factors. First, there was no house heating. Winter was mild, but it was still… winter, yet Communist authorities decided to save energy (what a “green” [...]
The Lost World of Old Europe
“Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade. For 1,500 years, starting earlier than 5000 B.C., they farmed and [...]
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