Romania's Stolen Revolution

This is a film about what people on the streets were saying just after Romania's bloody 1989 revolution. NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD (send an email to wolfemurray@gmail.com)

Set in the streets of central Bucharest and filmed in the observational cinema style, After the Revolution (the proper name of the film) follows the furious debates that were taking place on the streets at the time and offers an insight into the struggle for power that was taking place between Ion Iliescu, a former Communist leader who assumed power immediately after Ceausescu was deposed, and Ion Ratiu who had spent most of his life living in exile in London. Both were standing for the presidential election of May 1990, an election that was dominated by Iliescu's party and deeply flawed. Our film includes rare footage of the International Election Monitor's press conference after the election, in which they condemned the election as "highly irregular".

While the political leaders provide context and overview, it is the people on the street who make this film compelling; their views on their new found democracy, the rushed election of 1990, work and land issues are intelligent and amusing. It is perhaps the only film about the revolution that has any humour in it.

Laurentiu Calciu - director and cameraman - was a maths teacher when he discovered documentary by filming the aftermath of the 1989 revolution. He studied Documentary filmmaking the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, UK. He has made films in the UK, Greece, Romania, former Yugoslavia and Russia.

Rupert Wolfe Murray - producer - was educated in Scotland and Liverpool. He first came to Romania in 1986 and then in 1990, as a journalist, immediately after the revolution. He's been working with Laurentiu on various projects ever since.

After the Revolution makes available for the first time in 20 years some extraordinary material filmed by Laurentiu Calciu in 1990. What makes this material so special is that it gives ordinary people a platform in which to talk, unlike all other documentaries of the revolution which is dominated by Romania's so called intellectuals and politicians

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DECEMBER 22ND 2009

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[dudecs]

I hope it will be exposed at the 2010 Transilvania International Film Festival in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

As a cinephile, all I can say is 'Break a leg!' (it's bad luck to say 'Good luck!') and hope it will be shown in Romanian theatres as well.

Au revoir.

[rupertwolfemurray]

Thanks for the comment. Hopefully it will be at TIFF but it will be premiered at the Iasi Film Festival in early October 2009, so do try to come to that as it will not be screened again until December at the earliest.

[delyshBB]

lol@that idiot who can't tie two words in Romanian without making grammar mistakes talking about the workers being the force

[michaelantonie]

After the Revolution of 1989 dec, tell me if they had failed or not to bring any substantial changes for the poor peoples and their needs. what i mean is since the revolution ousting communist leaders and many killings more than two decades, standing has not changed. but we still have tanks, warships, and warplanes as an investment claiming to leading to greater security..while people are still poor and hungry for food.. nonsense!

[wintertrine]

i unfortunately missed it at oneworld this weekend. Can one buy it somewhere? I'm very interested in this!

[woddox]

this is a disaster .....iliescu president...massive fraud.......they are well chosen words.

[wilbertinu]

Show more fragments of your film as soon as possible on Romanian TV! State television stationTVR will not show it: 'owned' by the ex-communists, the PSD; and Antena1 or RealitateTV neither because they only show what their 'bosses', like Voiculescu (ex-Securitate), Vantu (connected to the arrested fugitive Popa), and Dinu Patriciu (was 'given' PetroMedia during the privatization in 2004; still owes Romania 600.000.000Euro!)

But OTV and B1 will show it for sure.

Luck! Wilbert. Romania/Holland.

[eurotube]

i just cant believe that it was 20 years ago ..

anyway ..great docu..sent you a message

[seanyr30]

Hi i cant wait for this doc, goodluck sean Belfast.