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In ‘The New Year That Never Came’ Bogdan Muresanu Urges People to Remember Ugliness of Ceausescu’s Regime – and to Check Santa’s CV (EXCLUSIVE)
‘The New Year That Never Came’ director Bogdan Muresanu talks about Nicolae Ceausescu’s regime in Romania, debuts trailer.
In Venice Film Festival premiere “The New Year That Never Came,” set during Nicolae Ceaușescu’s regime in Romania and debuting its exclusive trailer with Variety, no one can be trusted. Maybe that’s the moral of this film: Always check Santa’s CV,” laughs director Bogdan Mureşanu. Despite well-documented horrors of the regime that lasted years – Ceaușescu served as the country’s head of state from 1967 to 1989 – Romanians aren’t that critical of it anymore, argues Mureşanu.
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