Videograms of a Revolution

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)

Mircea Dinescu

himself

Thomas Schultz

Narrator (voice)