Veteran journalist and author Edward Behr spent a year investigating the rise and fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. Executed on Christmas Day 1989, Ceausescu was once a hero to his own people, and in the west. Behr's film reveals the truth behind the myth, in a tale of megalomania, farce, and horror.
George H. W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Carter
Self (archive footage)
Elena Ceaușescu
Self (archive footage)
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Self (archive footage)
Alexander Dubček
Self
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Self (archive footage)
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Self
Mikhail Gorbachev
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Self (archive footage)