Tipografic Majuscul
Tipografic Majuscul

Radu Jude (director), Bucharest, February 2020, 128 minutes

Summary/Abstract: „Tipografic Majuscul‟ („Uppercase Print‟), Radu Jude‟s latest feature, is the story of a highschool student who, during the communist regime, had the courage to write protest messages on his hometown walls. In 1981, Mugur Călinescu, 16 at the time, wrote slogans against the oppressive and dictatorial government which impelled the Secret Romanian Police („Securitate‟) to open two files regarding this subject matter. The film is an adaptation of Gianina Cărbunariu‟s documentary play presenting excerpts from those two files, „The Panel‟ and „The Student‟. Radu Jude‟s film impeccably knits cold dialogues with excerpts of propaganda footage from Romanian TV programmes of the time, creating a discrepancy between the cruel communism reality and the images presented on the National Television. The „Securitate‟ arrested and investigated Mugur Călinescu, serving him each time during the interrogations an unavoidable coffee which was speculated to be poisonous and connected to his death in 1985.

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