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)

Alexa Visarion

himself

Mircea Diaconu

himself (archive footage)