''Videograms of a Revolution'' is a 1992 documentary

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and

Andrei Ujică Andrei Ujică (born 1951 in Timișoara, Romania) is a Romanian screenwriter and director. Life and work Ujicǎ studied literature in Timișoara, Bucharest and Heidelberg. He moved to Germany in 1981. In 1990 he began making films. Together wit ...

from over 125 hours of amateur footage, news footage, and excerpts from the

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TV studio overtaken by demonstrators as part of the December 1989

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. In 2004 the

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selected the documentary as part of its ''

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'' program for ''

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'' list.

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