The Year That Never Came

Awarded dozens of prizes around the world — including the top prize at the Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz — writer and director Mureșanu presents in this powerful, intimate epic the increasingly tense situation during one week in December 1989 in Romania, on the eve of the revolution that would bring Nicolae Ceaușescu’s dictatorship to a bloody end. The lives of six citizens intersect amid public and private upheavals, orchestrated with symphonic skill and superbly performed by the ensemble cast. Critic Guy Lodge wrote in Variety that “the accumulation of human micro-dramas in this film creates a genuine sense of scale and momentum.”