ABSTRACT
It is a rather uncanny coincidence that Mircea Daneliuc’s film Glissando
appeared in cinemas around Romania exactly in the ominous year of 1984,
considering the fact that, at that time, Nikolae Ceausescu’s Romania was
the East European country that came closest to fulfilling George Orwell’s
dark prophecies. The accidental timing of the release of this film added
to its impact on an intellectual audience who received it enthusiastically,1
while official criticism tried to dismiss it by labeling it as too “confusing.”
