Short Film Grand Prix Competition
North American Premiere

CHILDREN OF THE DECREE
DAS EXPERIMENT 770: GEBAHREN AUF GEFEHL




Florin Iepan

Country of production: Germany, Rumania
Year: 2004
Language: English, Rumanian
Mins: 52

Production company: Westend Film+TV Produktion, Sub-Cult-Ura S.R.L.
Producer: Razvan Georgescu
Script: Florin Iepan, Razvan Georgescu
Cinematography: Wolf von Truchsess, Peter Reuther, Carlos Fuchs
Editing: Wolfgang Lehmann, Michael Bogar
Sound: Alfred Huff

Source: Westend Film+TV Produktion
Robert Heitmann
Friedrichstrasse 40
60323 Frankfurt, Germany
Tel.: +49 69 713 757 16
Fax: +49 69 713 757 36
e-mail: Robert.heitmann@westend.tv


Here’s the story of the Romanian baby boom generation, willed into being by dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Anxious to create a new Romania, Ceausescu, in 1966, issued Decree 770, in which he forbade abortion (excepting women over 40 or those already taking care of four children) and banned all forms of contraception. By 1969, the country had a million babies more than the previous average. Thousands of kindergartens were built overnight and the new generation forced to participate in sports and cultural activities. Romania’s tremendous demographic boom even led to the country’s hosting a world conference on population in 1974. To revisit this period of oppression, the film blends interesting archival footage, excerpts from old fiction films and interviews with famous personalities from the time. Ironically, the new generation, on which Ceausescu had pinned all his hopes, reached maturity in 1989 – the year when the country rose against and executed the dictator and his wife.

In 1998, Florin Iepan became the author, producer and director of a TV series based on the Romanian underground musical scene called Sub-Cult-Era. Iepan set up his own film and TV production company a year later, Sub-Cult-Era…, and created, directed and produced the TV series “Journey in the Land Of The Eclipse” and “Seven Stories From Beyond”.

Filmography

Children of the Decree (2004)
Johnny Weissmueller- The One, The real, the only TARZAN (2004)
Sub-Cult-Ura (1998)

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2005 AT 10.00 PM. / CHOPIN THEATRE
SCREENING WITH THE LAST GODFATHER
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2005 AT 12.00 PM. / CHOPIN THEATRE
SCREENING WITH THE LAST GODFATHER