Mircea Andreescu
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Jun 6, 2007 · Comedy, Drama. Not Rated. 1h 29m. By A.O. Scott. June 6, 2007. At the beginning of “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon,” Karl Marx famously observes that history repeats itself, first as ...
Jun 23, 2023 · 12:08 East of Bucharest. By Richard Brody. June 23, 2023. This wise and gentle comedy of political realism—the Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu’s first feature, from 2006—concerns a...
Jun 13, 2007 · In a comedy that fits into that absurdist corner of the psyche known as Balkan humor, Porumboiu revisits the exact moment that Ceausescu fled Bucharest - 12:08 p.m. on Dec. 22, 1989 - and...
Aug 13, 2007 · In 12:08 East of Bucharest, director Corneliu Poromboiu paints a portrait of small town Romania 16 years after that revolution. Old man Piscosi (Mircea Andreescu) and school teacher Manescu...
Jun 6, 2007 · Summary Sixteen years after the Revolution and just days before Christmas, a local television station in Bucharest has invited several guests to share their moments of glory, as they allegedly stormed city hall, chanting “down with Ceasescu!,” before Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and his wife fled the presidential palace by ...
Watch 12:08 East of Bucharest | Netflix. While producing a show about the 1989 overthrow of the Communist regime, a Romanian TV host finds wildly different versions of what actually happened. Watch trailers & learn more.
Jan 8, 2007 · synopsis. December 22. It’s been sixteen years since the Revolution and Christmas is approaching. Pisconi, an old retiree, is preparing to spend another lonely Christmas. Manescu, a history teacher, doesn’t want to lose his entire salary to pay his debts. Jderescu, the owner of the local TV station, doesn’t seem very interested in vacation.
