romanian revolution
"Ten years ago, we discovered hundreds of dead bodies here,
killed only hours ago by the Securitate. I don't know how
I could take these pictures, I think, I just pressed the
button and realized later the terror of death." I join
Dobrevoie Kerpenisan returning to the location of horror.
The cemetery of Temisoara, the city in Romania's south-west,
where the revolution started which eventually brought down
dictator Chauchescou. Ten years ago the romanian-born photographer
ran into the revolution by accident. He wanted to visit his family,
when the borders were closed and while the world media was excluded,
he had the chance, to be right in the middle of something which
could have ended in a terrible blood shed. Then his pictures were
published around the world. 10 years later I return with him, to
visit the places, where the revolution started, to meet the people
and reconstruct the situations he caught in his pictures. On the
cemetery, the new government just finished to install a brand new
"eternal flame" to commemorate the victims of the revolution and
the new start. Right there we ran into an old lady with her daughter,
warming her hands at the flame. She came to beg for some bred and some beer.
"I get only 7 Euro per month from the state and my daughter had to leave
school after the revolution and joins me on the street" she tells us in
her trembling voice. One of the many loosers on the way to freedom and
democracy, we'll meet...
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