| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (70 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in |
| Series |
Hot Docs (Television program)
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| Summary |
"In 1959 there was a robbery at the Romanian National Bank in Bucharest. This was a peculiar occurrence since the local currency (the lei) could only be spent inside Romania, and bank robberies, along with most other kinds of crimes, were presumed not to happen in the socialist utopia. The Romanian police scoured the country and ultimately arrested six people who they declared to be guilty. After confessing, the robbers agreed to re-enact their crime. An hour-long film, Reconstitution, was made in which they duly played themselves. But after their trial, also filmed, they were shot. The Great Communist Bank Robbery examines the 1960 film Reconstitution, and recreates a crime of which the motive is still difficult to fathom. (From France, in English and Romanian, English subtitles) CC WS."--SBS website |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of SBS-TV broadcast October 31, 2006. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
| Credits |
Written and directed by Alexandru Solomon |
| Performer |
Narrator: Marius Stanescu |
| Notes |
DVD |
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Rated: M |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
| Subject |
Bank robberies -- Romania
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| Author |
Solomon, Alexandru
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Stanescu, Marius
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SBS-TV
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