Videograms of a revolution

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Videograms of a Revolution is the title of a 106-minute documentary by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica , published in 1992 . The film, which premiered at the Viennale on October 12, 1992 in Vienna , compiles video images of the Romanian Revolution in the form of a chronology from Ceausescu's last speech (December 21, 1989) to the first TV summary of the sentencing of the dictator couple and their execution (December 26, 1989) December 1989).

In Bucharest , the official television station was occupied by demonstrators and was broadcast live almost continuously from December 21 to 26 . The title itself promises the revolution as electromagnetic recording and presents the film as audiovisual historiography.

Individual evidence

  1. filmportal.de , video einer Revolution
  2. farocki-film.de , Dietrich Leder: Film-Dienst 24/92

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