What happens when a nation rids itself of a political regime and is left without leaders? The post-revolution tensions in Romania stirred not only panic, but also a general feeling of paranoia, where the group of provisional leaders was under constant scrutiny and anyone could be suspected by their fellow citizens of terrorism, of opportunism, of partisanship with the remaining communists. As an indication of this frantic sense of distrust, the protests against the National Salvation Front are captured in an x-ray of those times by Laurențiu Calciu, wandering haphazardly amid the crowds, shoved from side to side, from speaker to speaker, always finding himself in the middle of the most spirited debates. As though frozen in history, Romanians were taking to the streets in order to purge their country of the recently defeated communism, while their story was spreading outside national borders and reaching the whole of Europe, now that the weight of the Iron Curtain had been lifted off them. (Andreea Chiper)
AUDIO: Romanian
SUBTITLE: English
awards and festivals
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2010