A dictator is an artist of ego: the difference lies in style, from Baudelaire to During the brief trial preceding his execution, Nicolae Ceaușescu mentally revisits his long rule from 1965 to 1989. Composed entirely of documentary footage, the film transforms historical record into introspective drama, replacing interviews and testimonies with a fictional monologue that reconstructs, with precision and cinematic intensity, the dictator’s psychological state at the end of his regime.