Videograms of a Revolution

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Overview

A minute-by-minute chronology of the Romanian revolution in December 1989 in Bucharest. This cinematic montage of live footage from the state television company TVR and video taken by numerous amateurs becomes a new media-based form of historiography.

Cast

Ion Caramitru

himself

Elena Ceaușescu

herself (archive footage)

Nicolae Ceaușescu

himself (archive footage)

M

Mircea Dinescu

himself

T

Thomas Schultz

Narrator (voice)

Alexa Visarion

himself

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