DESCHIDEREA CINEMATOGRAFIEI ROMÂNEȘTI SPRE OCCIDENT. DE LA GHEORGHIU-DEJ LA CEAUȘESCU
THE OPENING OF THE ROMANIAN CINEMA TOWARDS THE WEST. FROM GHEORGHIU-DEJ TO CEAUSESCU

Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates the structural change that the Romanian cinema witnessed from the late years of Gheorghiu-Dej’s regime and up to Ceausescu’s regime. The last years of Gheorgiu-Dej regime lead to a distancing of communist Romania from Moscow and to a resuming of cultural ties with the West. The film industry was among the beneficiaries of this foreign policy shift, experiencing massive imports of Western technology and the practice of co-productions. These external links intensified after the death of Gheorghiu-Dej, in 1965, and the coming to power of the new leader of PCR, Nicolae Ceaușescu. Collaboration agreements with France and Italy are brought to an end, and similar agreements with U.S.A., Spain, U.K or West Germany are planned to be signed. In the late `60s it seemed that the Romanian cinema will align with the Yugoslav one, as a result of this opening to the West.

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