The Marshal's Two Executions

2018

DocumentaryHistory

The film confronts two different views of the execution of General Ion Antonescu, Romania's leader during the Second World War.

Rating

6.344
16 votes

Popularity

0.2338

Origin & Countries

RO | ro | Romania

Production

Hi Film Productions

Runtime

10 min.

Status

Released

Release: 10/25/2018

Credits

The Marshal's Two Executions

Radu JudeDirector

The Marshal's Two Executions

Ion AntonescuSelf (archive footage)

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

5/17/2024

6 / 10

This isn't really a film so much as a contrasting presentation of two versions of the execution, by firing squad, of the wartime Romanian leader General Antonescu. It's quite a testament to the vision of the archivists that the original photography has been preserved as completely as it has been, but without any context to illustrate the history of the men facing death, it comes across as a rather gratuitously filmed exercise in 1946 propaganda designed to convince everyone who cared at the time that he was most definitely dead. It is quite interesting also that the Church appears to ceremonially sanction these killings - a Church that was surely every bit as complicit in the Nazi persecution during WWII as anyone in front of the rifles here?

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