Andrei Ujică
Andrei Ujică was born in 1951 in Timisoara, Romania. After immigrating to Germany in 1981, he became a teacher of literature and film theory at the University of Mannheim. It was not until 1989 that he decided to devote himself to film. In 1992, he worked with Harun Farocki on Videograms of a Revolution, a film about the relationship between political power and the media. He then directed Out of the Present, which recounts the journey of cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov aboard the space station Mir while on Earth, the Soviet Union was collapsing. In 2010, Andrei Ujică closes his trilogy on the end of communism with The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, presented at Cannes and acclaimed by international critics. At the invitation of the Fondation Cartier, Ujică directed the short film 2 Pasolini in 2021, which revisits Pasolini's trip to Palestine in the 1960s.
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The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Duration: 6h00Subscription access
Between documentary and reconstruction, this film traces the 25-year reign of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. A remarkable work of editing made from official images.
Out of the Present
May 1991. The Soviet cosmonaut Sergheï Krikalev flies to the Mir orbital station, which he will occupy for ten months under the eye of four cameras. When he returns, the Soviet Empire has disappeared, broken up, dismantled. During his time in space, one era ended, another was born. Thus, Krikalev became the first cosmonaut to carry out a mission for a country that no longer exists!
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Duration: 6h00Subscription access
Between documentary and reconstruction, this film traces the 25-year reign of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. A remarkable work of editing made from official images.
Out of the Present
May 1991. The Soviet cosmonaut Sergheï Krikalev flies to the Mir orbital station, which he will occupy for ten months under the eye of four cameras. When he returns, the Soviet Empire has disappeared, broken up, dismantled. During his time in space, one era ended, another was born. Thus, Krikalev became the first cosmonaut to carry out a mission for a country that no longer exists!
