Videograms of a Revolution (1992)

Original title

Videogramme einer Revolution

Directed by

Andrei Ujică, Harun Farocki

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 46m

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary is made from footage shot by amateurs, news crews, and the revolutionaries themselves during the Romanian revolution of 1989. It shows how the revolution looked as it was being filmed, and how the images themselves became part of the event.

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What happens

Videograms of a Revolution is a 1992 documentary film compiled by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică from over 125 hours of amateur footage, news footage, and excerpts from the Bucharest TV studio overtaken by demonstrators as part of the December 1989 Romanian Revolution. In 2004 the Austrian Film Museum selected the documentary as part of its Die Utopie Film program for The Best 100 in Film History list. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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