Marshal Ion Antonescu is the protagonist of a famous Romanian film, “The Mirror”, made by Sergiu Nicolaescu shortly after the 1989 Revolution. While in this movie his personality is glorified, “The Marshall’s Two Executions” is designed to demystify it. By drawing a parallel between Nicolaescu’s cinematic version of the Marshal’s execution — a scene brimming with pathos and grandiloquent music — with the rather dry and entirely silent archive footage that inspired this fictitious reenactment, Radu Jude’s documentary-short serves as a lesson on the power of popular cinema to contribute, decisively in some cases, to a distorted perception of historical figures and events. (Andrei Rus)