General Information

Original Title

Povestea a doua sate

Author/Creator

Pippidi, Alina-Mungiu, director.

Language

English.

Subtitles

English

Published

Romania : BBC, 2002.

Physical Description

VHS (58 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

This is the story of the existence under communism of two villages: Nucsoara and Scornicesti. They are opposite examples of the results of collectivization policy of the regime. The former was one of the sites of the fiercest resistence to communism and its idea of rural modernization. The latter was the native village of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and became the flagship of his policies of systematization. Dissimilarities between these villages are expressive of the cleavages in Romanian society during post-communism. Despite different memories and remembrances of communism and its traumas, both villages are suffering from similar aftermath of the failed communist project of social engineering of the rural part of Romania. At the same time, the documentary is attempting to also link the the new challenges of the post-1989 period with the practices and legacies of communism. The documentary is based upon Alina-Mungiu Pippidi's book "A Tale of Two Villages".

Subjects

Genre

Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Title Translation

A Tale of Two Villages

Note

Duration: 00:42:00

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
VHS	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0876	Available	-	-