Nostalgia for Dictatorship

Nostalgia for Dictatorship examines the widespread longing for the former communist regime that has emerged in almost all former communist European countries decades after its collapse. Beyond documenting this genuine syndrome, the film pairs ordinary citizens' opinions and motivations with explanations from researchers in various fields—sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, ethologists, and others—to uncover the intimate motivations behind such a paradoxical feeling.