Tales From The Golden Age

A group of downtrodden yokels paint trees and mount implausibly cheerful placards in anticipation of an official visit. A chicken farm delivery guy becomes embroiled in an egg-snatching scam during food shortages. A newspaper editor faces dread sanction when an effort to make the premiere look taller goes wrong. A policeman’s effort to secure extra meat rations goes comically, horribly wrong.  This delightfully absurd portmanteau film, a grim comedy from the same sequence that brought us 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, plays out popular urban myths dating from the last 15 years of Romanian life under the Ceauşescu regime.