University of New Orleans ScholarWorks@UNO Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present) University of New Orleans Press 6-2018 ’The Empire Means Order’: Images of the Austrio-Hungarian Monarchy in Romanian Fictional Films About the First World War Enikö Dácz Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/hlw Part of the European History Commons, and the Film and Media Studies Commons Recommended Citation Dácz, Enikö. “’The Empire Means Order’: Images of the Austrio-Hungarian Monarchy in Romanian Fictional Films About the First World War.” In Habsburg’s Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present), edited by Hannes Leidinger, 229-248. New Orleans: University of New Orleans Press, 2018. This Chapter is brought to you for free and open access by the University of New Orleans Press at ScholarWorks@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UNO. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. “THE EMPIRE MEANS ORDER”:1 IMAGES OF THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MONARCHY IN ROMANIAN FICTIONAL FILMS ABOUT THE FIRST WORLD WAR Enikö Dácz This paper focuses on Romanian cinematography about World War I, which Radina Vučetić regards as the richest in feature films in southeastern Europe “in not only the variety of the themes but also the topics they covered.”2 First, a chronological overview of Romanian films about World War I will be given, guided by the question how they present the 1914–1918 catastrophe, with special emphasis on the role of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.