The Marshal’s Two Executions

Synopsis

Marshal Antonescu, Leader of Romania in the WW II, was sentenced to death for war crimes in 1946. The execution was recorded on film. In 1994, filmmaker Segiu Nicolaescu releases The Mirror, a biopic that tries to clear the Marshal’s name. Nicolaescu staged the execution for his feature film. Our short film compares the two executions.

Director Biography

Radu Jude (1977) is a respected Romanian director of fiction films. His most recent work, I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians won the Crystal Globe for best film at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.