12:08 East of Bucharest
“Whose revolution was it anyway?”
Corneliu PorumboiuCast
Teodor Corban 
Ion Sapdaru 
Mircea Andreescu
Credits
Written by: Corneliu Porumboiu
Plot
Sixteen years after the Romanian revolution, a small-town television host in Vaslui invites two guests to debate whether the town took part in the revolution against Ceaușescu, by being in the square before 12:08 on the day he fled. The calls from viewers raise doubts about the story. Corneliu Porumboiu's 2006 film is a deadpan comedy about memory and history, and won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes.
Sinekatalog’s take
Corneliu Porumboiu's deadpan comedy has a TV host debating whether his town joined the 1989 revolution. Dry, talky and sharp, it is a funny, smart puncturing of national myth.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.3 / 10 (8,628 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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