The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

However, unless Ceausescu wrote it himself, that is a biography, not an autobiography. Minor nitpicking aside, this is simply beautiful to watch. The progression of a man to a leader and then to a myth he believed too much in. The rise to power of a murderous regime is very insidious and can happen again.

The only movie who is objectiv about the life of the greatest leade in the history of Romania

this are the best 3 hours of Romanian communist history, a period of nearly 42 years in video, things that you will never find in history books.I find it objective and a real help to understand that era. For those who are not Romanians or interested by the subject , it might be boring, dull or whatever, but again , nobody can't force you to watch it for 180 min, but for me it was a real help on making an image of the years before i was born and the 7 years after that i lived in communism. Glad someone had the courage to do it, too bad its not as promoted as it should among Romanians especially.The title is an irony, because the dictator never had an autobiography or even the chance to see the movie,it presents the debut of communism in Romania and very soon the debut of Ceausescu in the history if the country. We can't judge actions or reactions of the character but we can pretty easily make and opinion about him, especially by listening all his speeches during the movie, where you can have a certain feeling of nationalism surrounding his position towards Romania. As a dictator , he follows the line of all the dictators in the world, living his life in pure luxury while his people struggles to exist, especially in the last years of his "kingdom".Facing the riot of an entire country his faith is sealed, but his death is not people's decision. So before seeing the movie, don't think as if it's an action movie, it's just a history lesson, and if you are not into history, you will never really have the chance to appreciate the quality of this movie. From me it has a 10.

Very nice to use some images available at national television, but what else? It is unfortunate because in few years the public might use a real documentary about this subject.

The point of the documentary should be to learn about Ceausescu. Well, this documentary wouldn't make any sense to someone that didn't know him very well. It's just footage edited together without any explanation whatsoever.

I watched this with my father, who is pretty much a romanian historian, and he had to explain it all to me. "this was in the year ... in the context of ... when ceausescu visited ... to talk to ... about ..."