Greetings from Agigea

This mid-1980s Romanian Communist propaganda film deals with the topic of young high-school graduates and members of the Romanian Communist Youth Union being sent to work at the Danube-Black Sea Canal mega-project. In the mid-1980s, during the last years of Romanian Communism, the Romanian Communist filmmakers created this propaganda film to bolster the Communist regime's fading morale. The film was commissioned by the dying and extremely unpopular Communist regime to celebrate the 1984 inauguration of the Danube-Black Sea Canal mega-project. In the film, young high-school graduates and members of the Romanian Communist Youth Union are shown as eager and patriotic volunteers for the dangerous and back-breaking intensive labor taking place at the Danube-Black Sea Canal Communist mega-project.The film also draws a parallel between the contemporary Communist project and past Communist mega-projects such as the building of the Bumbesti-Livezeni main railroad link in 1948. —nufs68