The Marshal’s Two Executions

Cele Două Execuții Ale Mareșalului

21st TDF: Greek Premiere

General Ion Antonescu, a fervent Nazi supporter and a profound anti-Semite, played a key role in two back-to-back military coups that took place in Romania during World War II, while he enforced policies that led to the extermination of 400,000 Jews. After being tried for war crimes, he was led to his execution on June 1st, 1946. Confronting two views of Antonescu’s execution, Radu Jude, one of the prominent figures in contemporary Romanian cinema, dares once again to explore –this time in a short film– the limits of representation, the relationship between memory and history, how the historic past is obscured or embellished within the national narrative.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Direction: Radu Jude
Script: Radu Jude
Cinematography: Ovidiu Gologan
Editing: Cătălin Cristuțiu
Sound: Dana Bunescu
Production: Hi Film
Producers: Ada Solomon
Format: DCP
Color: Color/B&W
Production Country: Romania
Production Year: 2018
Duration: 10΄
Contact: Hi Film, office@hifilm.ro

Radu Jude

Radu Jude is a Romanian director and screenwriter. In 2006, he made the short film The Tube with a Hat, winner of more than 50 international awards. Jude’s feature debut The Happiest Girl in the World (2009) was selected for more than 50 international film festivals. Titles such as Aferim!, Scarred Hearts, and Everybody in Our Family followed and won multiple awards. The international premiere of The Dead Nation in Locarno 2017 marked his debut in documentary film. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians won the Crystal Globe for Best Film and Label Europa Cinemas Prize in Karlovy Vary in 2018. Uppercase Print and The Exit of the Trains (co-directed with Adrian Cioflâncă), premiered in Berlinale Forum 2020. His next feature, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, won the Golden Bear at Berlinale 2021. In the summer of 2021, Radu Jude was present in Locarno IFF – Corti d’Autore with the short Caricaturana and in Venice IFF – Out of Competition with the short film Semiotic Plastic. His short The Potemkinists premiered in Directors' Fortnight in 2022 and has traveled in over 20 festivals up to now. In 2023, he won the Special Jury Prize in Locarno with Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World. One year later, he returned to the same festival to premiere his two latest films: Eight Postcards From Utopia and Sleep #2.

Filmography

2006 The Tube with a Hat (short)
2009 The Happiest Girl in the World
2012 Everybody in Our Family
2015 Aferim!
2016 Scarred Hearts
2017 The Dead Nation (doc)
2018 I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
2021 Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
2023 Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
2024 Eight Postcards from Utopia (doc)
2024 Sleep #2 (doc)