KAPITALISM - OUR IMPROVED FORMULA

Twenty years ago Nicolae Ceaușescu was executed and Romania liberated from oppression. But what kind of country would the deposed dictator find if he were brought back to life today? Solomon’s documentary is a “thought experiment” that unfolds an ironically soothing panorama before the former president’s eyes. In post-communist Romania the power structures of the old elites remain intact. Shadowy figures from the past have divided up Romania’s means of production and continue to control the state and the economy much as they did in the era of the Securitate. “Capitalisme à la Roumanie” is built on glittering shopping malls, outlandish personalities, corruption, and ex-Party networks. A sobering resumé with comic undertones.