The New Year That Never Came – Bogdan Mureşanu

By interweaving the more or less trivial life journeys of six different individuals who cross paths on a single day in Bucharest, Mureşanu creates a tragicomedy about the Romanian revolution of December 20, 1989, which led to the end of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s communist dictatorship, which had been in place in the country since 1964. Filmed in 4:3, in shades of gray and from several different angles, the film transports the viewer into the oppressive and emasculating atmosphere that overshadowed the country in those days and which nothing or no one foresaw could be undone and converted into freedom.