Andrei Ujica’s extraordinarily powerful montage of newsreel footage is not a record of the Romanian dictator’s appalling misdeeds but rather a sly use of Ceausescu’s own propaganda to drive ...

Filmmaker: You recount Ceausescu’s rise to power and brutal reign seemingly from his own chilling, romanticized point of view using previously unused state propaganda footage and home movies. Why did ...

The propaganda machine presented Ceausescu as the main architect of both domestic and foreign policies, a visionary, and guarantor of a Romanian path to socialism. Ceausescu's cult of personality ...

Yet in many respects Ceausescu turns out to be as much the author of this brilliant documentary as the director, Andrei Ujica, who waded through more than 1,000 hours of filmed state propaganda ...

Under Nicolae Ceausescu’s 25-year dictatorship ... a masterful pastiche of dictator-approved news and jingoistic propaganda. In an interview with journalist Milo Rau, Mr. Ujica said he found ...

The counter-propaganda of those currently in power is very similar to that of Ceausescu. During his last few days, the tyrant declared that “foreign agencies” are fomenting and guiding the ...

Ion Mihai Pacepa led Romania's foreign intelligence service and was an aide to dictator Nicolae Ceausescu before defecting ... a sophisticated and covert propaganda campaign in the early 1970s.

But the situation was much worse when British schoolteacher Monica McDaid saw it for the first time in 1990 - just a few months after Ceausescu's downfall. "What I saw was beyond belief," she said.