2022 | Romania | Documentary

Potemkiniștii (The Potemkinists)

  • Romanian English 18 mins
  • Director | Radu Jude
  • Writer | Radu Jude
  • Producer | Ada Solomon

STATUS: Released

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A sculptor proposes a monument honoring the 1905 mutiny of the Russian battleship Potemkin’s sailors—who received political asylum in Romania—during a dialogue with a Culture Ministry official. With sharp, satirical wit, the film deconstructs historical myth, memory, and cinema, even bursting in references to Eisenstein and contemporary geopolitics.

Art Memory Satire History Bureaucracy
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