TY - ADVS AU - Chistian Mungiu AU - Hanno Hofer AU - Razvan Marculescu AU - Constantin Popescu AU - Ioana Uricaru AU - Cristian Mungiu AU - Hanno Hofer AU - Razvan Marculescu AU - Diana Cavallioti AU - Radu Iacoban AU - Vald Ivanov TI - Amintiri din epoca de aur: Romanian Urban Myths of the 80's AV - PN1997 .A456 2009 PY - 2012/// CY - [S.l.], Brooklyn, NY PB - IFC Films, Kimstim KW - Foreign films KW - Motion pictures, Romanian KW - Romania KW - Drama KW - Foreign language films KW - Romanian KW - Motion pictures KW - Romanian language films N1 - N2 - From Case Cover: The final fifteen years of the Ceausescu regime were the worst in Romania's history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time relentlessly referred to that period as the country's "golden age." Using the moniker as a starting point, Tales from the golden age spins the most popular, comic, and bizarre urban legends from that harrowing period into a hilariously surreal omnibus film. The movie re-captures the mood of a nation trying to survive under the twisted logic of a brutal dictatorship. It was an era when food was more important than money, freedom more important than love and survival more important than principles. Director Cristian Mongiu wrote the scripts and commisioned other Romanian filmmakers to collaborate with him on the project ER -