UPPERCASE PRINT

TIPOGRAFIC MAJUSCUL

By Radu JUDE

EYE FILMMUSEUM - as DISTR Theatrical, VOD, NETHERLANDS

Drama - Completed 2019

Linking a young opponent and the official story of Ceausescu‘s Romania brings to light an unknown hero 30 years after the fall of communism.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2020
Forum
Film Fest Gent 2020
Official Selection: Masters
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama, Historical
    • Countries
    • ROMANIA
    • Languages
    • ROMANIAN
    • Duration
    • 128 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Radu JUDE
    • Synopsis
    • Based on the play ‘Tipografic Majuscul’ by Gianina Cărbunariu.

      Romania, 1981.

      Ceaușescu is in office, leading a communist Romania.
      He writes the official story with the help of the National
      Television.

      Mugur Călinescu, a 16 y.o. teenager, writes another story on walls with chalked uppercase protest messages against the regime. His actions are compiled in a voluminous file kept by the Secret Police (Securitate), which observed, apprehended, interrogated and destroyed him.

      Linking both stories - secret and public - personal and
      collective - brings to light an unknown hero 30 years after the fall of communism.