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Timisoara -- December 1989
Bose Ovidiu Pastina | Romania | 1991-93 | 81 min. | documentary

This stark black-and-white documentary reflects eyewitness experiences of the 1989 demonstrations in Timisoara, western Romania: the seed that grew into a bloody rebellion and overthrew the hated Ceausescu regime. Translucently beautiful, the film looks as if it were shot with an X-ray machine, a simile which is echoed in the grueling testimonies of people betrayed and exposed by their own revolution.

New York Premiere, 1995 Human Rights Watch Festival. Distributed by Romania Centrul National Al Cinematografiei (CNC), 25, Thomas Masaryk Str., Sector 2, Bucharest, Romania, Tel: (40 1) 2103762 Fax: (40 1) 2113688.

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