About the dramatic events in Romania in December 1989.
The film tells about the dramatic events in Romania in December 1989. The film uses the following footage: the funeral procession in Bucharest, N. Ceausescu's speech at a rally on December 21. Chronicle of the 9th Congress of the Romanian Communist Party in 1965. Production processes at a metallurgical plant. N. Ceausescu and E. Ceausescu visit a garment factory, N. Ceausescu is awarded an order. Medical care for children in a hospital. N. Ceausescu's residence in Bucharest. Rallies in the squares and streets of Bucharest. A meeting of the National Salvation Front. View of burning apartment buildings in Bucharest. Interviews with Bucharest residents. Restoration work in Bucharest. Interview with K. Pîrvulescu, one of the founders of the Communist Party (synchronously). Dismantling of the monument to V. I. Lenin in Bucharest. Romanian peasants working on the land. Planting potatoes. A session of the Romanian Parliament. View of a youth tent city in the center of Bucharest. The building of the State University. Interviews with Romanian students (synchronously). General view of Constanta, the seaport.




Romania.
Bucharest.
Funeral procession; woman crying – medium, various.
Woman standing with child; relatives at grave – medium, various.
Hands holding candle – medium.
Cross on grave – medium, zoom in on photograph – medium, various.
People at cemetery – general, with movement.
Candles burning – kr.
Photo: glass pierced by fields; young man’s face, panorama of grave candle – kr, various, medium.
Girl holding candle – kr.
Hands holding candle – kr, panorama of young man.
Hand lighting candles – kr.
Portrait of General Secretary of RCP N. Ceausescu burning – kr. N. Ceausescu speaking at rally (synchronously, in Romanian) – kr.
People at square – general, panorama.
Photo: Ceausescu at rally – kr.
B/w, film. 1965. The Ninth Congress of the RCP. The congress delegates applaud while standing; listening – general, various.
Ceausescu on the tribune – general, short.
The congress delegates speak and applaud – general, Poland.
Builders clearing rubble with shovels – general, various.
Men digging the earth – moderate; pushing wheelbarrows with bricks – general.
People dismantling a destroyed house – general.
A house is collapsing – moderate.
Dancers at the stadium – general.
The building of a metallurgical plant – general.
A plant workshop – general.
Rebar workers standing – moderate.
Blast furnace – moderate, departure.
Bulldozers working – moderate.
A bulldozer throws down stones, sand – moderate, various. N. Ceausescu and his entourage pass by; talking to the people – Wed, misc.
Dancers at the stadium – general.
Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu at the sewing factory – Wed, misc.
Female workers applauding – Wed.
Factory building – Wed, Poland.
A female worker presents flowers to Ceausescu – Wed.
Dancers at the stadium – general.
Demonstrators carry portraits of Ceausescu and other members of the government – Wed, general.
Applauding – general.
Ceausescu is presented with an order, congratulated on the award – Wed.
Order; Poland on Ceausescu – kr.
Photo: Ceausescu's speech at a rally – Wed.
Books are thrown from the balcony – Wed.
People are crowding around the balcony – general, Poland.
Participants in the rally are shouting, including women – Wed, misc., Poland.
People in the square – general.
Portrait – kr.
The windows are burning – Wed, misc., Poland, departure.
Photo: soldiers; a young man and a girl; a dead man lies down; a wounded man; a man is crying; a soldier with a machine gun; people's faces; a hand holds a pistol; a girl kisses a soldier; a hand holds out a sandwich – Wed, misc.
The people are rejoicing; a young man is running; people are waving their hands – Wed, misc.
A car with people is driving by – Wed.
A city street – Wed, with movement.
A young man is writing on the wall – Wed.
Hands are crossing out a portrait – Wed.
Photo: a child's face – Wed.
A child is smiling – kr.
A doctor is examining a child – Wed, misc., Poland.
A child's face – kr.
The door to a hospital ward opens; a child is in a crib – Wed.
A child is lying down, crying – Wed, kr, zoom in.
A hall in Ceausescu's residence in Bucharest – general, Poland.
Wardrobe, armchair – moderate, misc., Poland.
Dressing room; mirror; bathroom – moderate, general, Poland.
Mosaic on the wall – moderate, Poland.
Portrait of Elena Ceausescu – moderate.
Winter garden in the residence – moderate, Poland.
Tree with fruit – moderate, Poland.
Child’s face – moderate.
Silver service; room with services – moderate, general.
Sculpture – moderate.
Statuettes – moderate, Poland.
A peasant woman speaking (synchronously, in Russian) – moderate.
Plot of land near the house – moderate, Poland.
Old people – moderate.
Old man’s hands – moderate.




People waving flags at a rally – general, departure.
A man being thrown into the air – Wed Members of the provisional government at a rally; rally participants – Wed, misc.
Meetings of the National Salvation Front – Wed Members of the Front Ion Iliescu, Petre Roman, and others are sitting – Wed, misc., and movements.
Bucharest Square: a soldier sitting on an armored personnel carrier – general, Poland.
A woman crying – short A hospital ward – general, Poland.
A woman standing – Wed Captain Pascaru speaking (synchronously, in Romanian) – Wed City street, residential buildings are burning – Wed, with movement.
Blood on the asphalt – Wed People at the bars – Wed Soldiers sledding with children – general, Wed Soldier Bogdan Milos, who has returned from service, at home – Wed, Poland. B. Milos speaking (synchronously, in Romanian) – Wed, zoom in. B. Milos’s grandfather, mother-in-law and mother – Crit, miscellaneous.
Photo: Grandfather Petru in military uniform; sailors of the battleship Potemkin – Wed, miscellaneous.
Leafing through an album – Wed.
List of the battleship Potemkin’s crew – Wed, zoom in.
Grandfather Petru sitting, panorama of the painting – Crit.
Grandfather Petru with B. Milos – Wed. B. Milos’s family sitting at the table – Wed.
Destroyed houses in Bucharest – Wed, panorama.
Builders restoring the dome of the National Library building – Wed, panorama.
A worker standing – Crit.
Restoration work – Wed, panorama.
Queues for bread and newspapers – Wed, miscellaneous, panorama.
Interviews are being given on the street by passers-by (women, men – all simultaneously, in Romanian) – kr, Poland.
A woman lights a candle – cf.
A peasant speaks (synchronously, in Romanian) – kr.
Peasants listen – cf.
A horse stands; Poland on peasants – kr.
A peasant speaks (synchronously, in Romanian) – kr.
Icons by the wall, candles are burning – cf.
People in the square, a man speaks (synchronously, in Romanian) – cf.
Flowers by the wall, a woman lights a candle – cf.
A man, female students, and a woman speak (synchronously, in Romanian) – cf., miscellaneous.
A child passes by – cf.
A man lights a candle – cf.
Graffiti on the wall – cf., miscellaneous, run over.
Demonstrators pass by – cf.
Photojournalists in the square – cf.
Monument to V. Lenin – general, from the approach.
People in the square – medium.
Woman with a child – small.
People talking in the square – medium, Poland.
Dismantling the monument – general, Poland.
A man stands with a child – small, Poland.
Monument to V.I. Lenin – small.




The torch is burning – cf.
Photo: Liviu Babes, a lone fighter against the Ceausescu regime – cf.
A skier is coming down the mountain – cf.
Liviu Babes’s wife Etelka Babes – cf.
The room – general, panorama.
The record player – cf., panorama of the paintings – cf.
The books on the shelf – cf.
Liviu Babes’s works are standing by the tree – cr, panorama.
Etelka Babes speaking (synchronously, in Romanian) – cf.
The paintings on the wall – panorama, zoom in.
A skier is coming down the mountain – cf.
Photo of Liviu Babes – cf., misc.
A skier is coming down the mountain against the backdrop of a torch – cf.
Painting by Liviu Babes – cr, zoom in.
Clouds – cf., zoom in.
Workers are speaking – Wed, (synchronously, in Romanian).
Workers are standing at the checkpoint – Wed.
Factory workshop in Bucharest – general, Poland.
Gheorghe Dimitru speaking (synchronously, in Romanian) – Wed.
Workers at a machine – Wed, Poland.
Hands are holding a part; a worker’s face – Wed, cr, Poland.
Workers at a machine; at work – Wed, misc.
A girl at a machine – cr.
Factory workshop – general, Poland.
The face of Constantin Pîrvulescu (one of the founders of the RCP) – cr.
A granddaughter is reading a newspaper; a grandmother is listening – cr.
B/w, film. 1979. Presidium of the 12th Congress of the RCP – general.
Pîrvulescu is speaking from the rostrum (synchronously, in Romanian) – Wed.
Applauding – general.
Listening – general, miscellaneous.
Dismantling of the Lenin monument – medium, miscellaneous, Poland.
People in the square – medium, general, Poland.




Painting – Wed, Poland.
Corneliu Coposu (leader of the National Peasants' Party) at a painting – Wed.
Coposu looking at photographs – Wed.
Coposu holding a photo of his wife Arlette – Wed, misc.
Photographs on the table – kr.
Red plans of the hands and face of C. Coposu.
Photo: C. Coposu in his youth – kr.; Coposu after his release from prison – kr. C. Coposu sitting with his sisters at a table – kr., Wed; talking – Wed.
Newspaper – Wed.
People buying newspapers – Wed, misc.
People at the building of the National Peasants' Party – general, Wed.
Men talking – Wed.
Arable land – general, Poland.
A peasant measuring the land – Wed.
Peasants passing by; dividing the land; a woman driving in a peg – kr, Poland.
An old man in a papakha speaks – (synchronously, in Romanian) cr, Polish.
A peg, leaving for a collective farm field – Wed.
Peasants in a potato field – Wed, Polish.
An old man chooses tubers for planting – cr, Polish.
Peasants plant potatoes – Wed, misc, Polish.
A flock of sheep – Wed.
Shepherds at a rally – Wed, Polish.
A shepherd speaks, Polish at those listening – cr, Polish.
A woman holds a child, Polish at the posters – Wed, Polish.
Women at the parliament – cr, Polish.
A member of parliament talks to the people (synchronously, in Romanian) – Wed, misc, Polish; enters the building – Wed, Polish.
A session of parliament – general, Polish, Wed.
The presidium is seated – Wed.
A soldier stands at his post – Wed.
Demonstrators are passing by – general, Wed.
People on the University Square – general, Poland.
Tent city – Wed, Poland.
Young people are lying on the ground – Wed, Poland.
Guys are shaking a blanket – Wed.
A man is setting up a tent, running over a flag – Wed.
Young men are reading leaflets, Poland over a sleeping man – Wed, Poland.
Cartoons – Wed, Poland.
People on the square – Wed, Poland.
A speaker at the microphone – general.
Listeners – general, miscellaneous.
People are chanting (synchronously, in Romanian) – Wed.
Women and men are speaking (all synchronously, in Romanian) – miscellaneous.
A fight in the street – Wed.




Monument to V.I. Lenin – Wed, zoom in.
Prayers in a church – Wed, Poland.
Icon – Wed, zoom out.
Woman praying – Wed.
Newborn baby, panorama of parents – Wed, Poland.
Girl riding on a carousel, running up to her mother – Wed, Poland.
Young man and woman riding in a boat; walking – Wed, misc.
Elderly people sitting on a bench and reading newspapers – Wed.
Family standing on the pier – Wed, zoom in.
Girls passing by – Wed.
Children dancing in a clearing – Wed.
Seascape – general, Poland.
University building, zoom in on sculpture – Wed, Poland.
University students standing and talking (synchronously, in Romanian) – short, misc.
Faces of listeners – Wed, misc.
Laying flowers, panorama on the Cross – cf.
Soldiers standing – cf.
Laying a wreath – cf.
People at the monument – general, panorama.
Flowers, panorama of clergy – cf.
Girls standing – cf.
City and county leaders Barbu Danescu, Andrian Fădulescu standing – cf., misc.
Andrian Fădulescu sitting at the table, speaking (synchronously, in Romanian) – cf.
Port of Constanta – general.
Barbu Danescu at the port, talking to workers; speaking (synchronously, in Romanian) – cf., misc.
Workers speaking – cf., (synchronously, in Romanian).
Girls passing by – cf., misc.
Victory Boulevard in Bucharest – run-over of a house – general.
Man standing on the balcony – cf.
Windows – cf., panorama.
Socialism Avenue – general, Poland, departure.
Flag; Poland on Lazar and Zoya Draghici; Zoya speaks (synchronously, in Romanian) – comparable.
Field – general, Poland.
Hands – cr.
Well – comparable.
Jug on a shelf – comparable.
Vegetable garden; a peasant is building a cellar – comparable, Poland.
A peasant is hammering nails, Poland on his hands – cr, misc.
Path on a plot of land – comparable, with movement.
Hands are loosening the soil – comparable.
A horse is standing in the yard – general, run-over.
Men are building a house – comparable, Poland.
A man is hammering nails – comparable.
A woman is getting water from a well – comparable.
Ears of corn; a house under construction – comparable, Poland, departure.
Field (from the window of a house) – comparable, Poland.
Flag – comparable, run-over.
Shot-through glass – photo, cf.
Photo: bullets; soldiers standing, soldiers' faces; young man with flag, newspaper; soldier feeding pigeons – cf., misc.
Flag, run-over of clouds – cf.