Credits: screenplay: Cristian Mungiu; director of photography: Liviu Marghidan, Oleg Mutu, Alexandru Sterian; editor: Dana Bunescu, Theodora Penciu, Ioana Uricaru; music: Hanno Höfer, Laco Jimi; sound: Dana Bunescu, Christinel Sirli, Stanomir Dragos; production design: Cezara Armasu, Dana Istrate, Simona Paduretu, Mihaela Poenaru; costume design: Brandusa Ioan, Ana Ioneci, Dana Istrate, Luminita Mihai; producer: Cristian Mungiu, Oleg Mutu; production: Mobra Films, Why Not Productions;

Country: Romania, France

Year: 2009

Running time: 155

Colour: Colour

Format: 35 mm

The final 15 years of the Ceausescu regime were the worst in Romania's history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time referred without fail to that period as “the golden age”... Tales from the Golden Age adapts for screen the most popular urban myths of the period, during which food was more important than money, freedom more important than love and survival more important than principles.Comic, bizarre, surprising, these myths drew on the often surreal events of everyday life under the communist regime. Humor is what kept Romanians alive, and Tales From The Golden Age aims to recapture that mood, portraying the survival of a nation having to face every day the twisted logic of a dictatorship.