The Great Communist Bank Robbery

• Movies
• 2004-05-10
• EN
• Released
• 1h 10m
• RO
• Documentary

• 7.3
• 5
• Trailer

Production

Libra Film

Storyline

In 1959, in Romania, six former members of the nomenklatura and the secret police organize a hold up of the National Bank. After their arrest, the state forces them to play themselves in a film which reconstitutes the crime and the investigation. At the end of their trial, filmed live, they are sentenced to death and executed. A month later, the film Reconstitution was released and became a sensation throughout the country.