Catalog Search Results
History Reference Center
Full-text articles to support research in history and genealogy and lesson plans to support student learning.
Language
Romanian
Description
A monumental achievement, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU tracks the rise and fall of the infamous Romanian dictator through his own propaganda footage. Director Andrei Ujica crafted over 1,000 hours of official state broadcasts and intimate home movies into a tour-de-force that depicts how Ceausescu created the country in his own image, regardless of the cost to its citizens. His rapid ascent to power is aided by parliamentary meetings and...
Author
Series
Language
Romanian
Description
Născută în România în 1908, Vera Maria Rosenberg era foarte tânără când a fost recrutată de serviciile de informații britanice. Și-a schimbat numele pentru a-și ascunde originea evreiască, iar după stabilirea în Marea Britanie a participat la numeroase misiuni secrete. A avut o ascensiune rapidă, ajungînd în fruntea SOE, serviciul de operațiuni speciale creat de Winston Churchill. În timpul celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial,
...Language
Romanian
Description
On the sixteenth year anniversary of the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, a local anchorman of a nearby provincial town invites two of his acquaintances to share their moments of revolutionary glory on his talk show. One is an impish, insightful retiree who sometimes poses as Santa Claus, the other a henpecked, hard-drinking teacher who has just devoted his entire salary to his drinking debts. Together they will remember the day when they...
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 7
Language
Romanian
Description
The way I spent the end of the world: Bucharest 1989, the last year of Ceaușescu's dictatorship. Eva, 17, lives with her parents and her 7 year-old brother Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceaușescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee. Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei and decides to escape Romania with...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request