Cast & creator
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Best known for Panorama, Chuck Norris vs Communism, Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator
Nicolae Ceaușescu (5 February [O.S. 23 January] 1918[1] – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and dictator. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last Communist leader of Romania. He was also the country's head of state from 1967, serving as President of the State Council and from 1974 concurrently as President of the Republic, until his overthrow and execution in the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, part of a series of anti-Communist uprisings in Eastern Europe that year.
23
film credits
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television credits
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1953–2024 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
★ 6.3Panorama
Acting · 1953
★ 7.2Chuck Norris vs Communism
Self - Politician (archive footage) · 2015
★ 8.2Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator
Self (archive footage) · 2023
★ 7.4HyperNormalisation
Self (archive footage) · 2016
★ 6.8Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Self - Politician (archive footage) · 2019
Across film & television
Filmography (25)
Showing 25 of 25 credits
Panorama
1953Chuck Norris vs Communism
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2015Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator
Self (archive footage)
2023HyperNormalisation
Self (archive footage)
2016Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
Bright Future
Himself (archive footage)
2024
30 Years of Democracy
Self (archive footage)
2019
Flame of Persia
Self
1971
Czechoslovakia: Portrait of a Tragedy
Self
1968
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Self (archive footage)
2017
Ceausescu: Behind the Myth
Self (archive footage)
1991
Uppercase Print
Self (archive footage)
2020
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Self (archive footage)
2010Détour Ceausescu
1990
Tovarășu': facerea, gloria și desfacerea unui dictator
2023
Decadence and Downfall: The Shah of Iran's Ultimate Party
Self (archive footage)
2016
Death Scenes 3
1993
The Last Days of the Ceaușescus
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
2010Nicolae & Elena
Self (archive footage)
1991
Videograms of a Revolution
himself (archive footage)
1992
The Certainty of Probabilities
Himself
2021
Phoenix. Har/Jar
Self (archive footage)
2023
Anatomy of a Departure
Self (Archive Footage)
2012
Oratorio for Prague
Self (archive footage)
1968
Trading Germans
Himself (archive footage)
2014