Debutul "epopeii naţionale cinematografice". Realizarea filmului Tudor (1963).

This paper aims to reveal how the historical movie genre started its existence in communist Romania and what was the main purpose behind this decision. The regime sought to re-establish the ties with the past in terms of political instrumentalization. Therefore, in the context of a slowly emancipation from the Soviet grip we witness a revival of the national ideas which favored the making of Tudor. The movie follows both the social and national struggle of the revolutionary leader Tudor in the early 1800's. Also, because of its nationalistic tone, it became an important tool of the Communist propaganda and the aim was to strengthen the position of the Romanian Communist Party inside the Romanian society. Although the movie was made in the final years of the Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej regime, it was later recovered by the Ceausescu Cinema and fitted into the Romanian National Cinema Epic's project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]