Document 56

Document 56

Based on true events. In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from former US president Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ceausescu proposing a joint covert arrangement to finance Saddam Hussein and the army of Iraq. With 48 hours to prepare for the arrival of CIA operatives, the two agents race to determine the hidden agenda of the visit – and each other.

"Best Foreign Film" at Beverly Hills Film Festival 2024

Romania / 2024 / 29'


Director

Director

Christopher Landry is an American independent producer and assistant director whose career in the motion picture industry spans more than forty years – twenty of them in Romania. During this time he has collaborated on more than one hundred film and televison productions, serving as the right hand to such directors as John Boorman, Roland Joffé, Alexandre Aja, Wes Craven and Paul Schrader. Christopher is also the author of Marele ecran in epoca de aur, a history of Romanian film posters during the communist times. “Document 56” is his first film as writer and director.