Moments in the Destiny of Romanian Culture in Communism: Theater and Film

By the irony of fate, one of the most coherent protests against the totalitarian system before 1971 was articulated in the language of theater and cinematography – argues the author of this article. She offers a historical-analytical review of theater and film creation before 1971, focusing the discussion around two main issues: the re-theatralization of the theater, that is, the attempts to relieve the theater performance from ideological constraints; and the battle for the image, presented in aspects of Romanian film between 1960 and 1970, a pioneering period in Romanian cinematographic art.

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