Synopsis
12:08 East of Bucharest (A fost sau n-a fost?, 2006) — watch online on iFILM. Corneliu Porumboiu's feature debut took the Camera d'Or at Cannes: best first film of the year. The premise is a single question: did anything actually happen in their small Romanian town on the day Ceaușescu fled?
Local TV host Jderescu assembles a panel for a live broadcast. The retired Piscoci insists he was in the town square before 12:08 — the official timestamp of the dictator's flight. History teacher Manescu can't quite remember. Viewers call in. Accounts don't add up. The conversation drags on in the best possible way.
Porumboiu turns a cramped studio format into a meditation on how shared history frays with time — dryly funny, stubbornly human, shot on the tightest budget. A cornerstone of the Romanian New Wave. Stream 12:08 East of Bucharest online on iFILM.
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