Cold waves [videorecording] / a coproduction Hi Film Productions, Geppert Productions, Paul Thiltges Distributions ; a film by Alexandru Solomon ; producers, Alexandru Solomon ... [et al.]
出版項
Romania : Hifilm Productions ; Luxembourg : Paul Thiltges Distributions, c2007
In Romanian, some English, French, German; with English, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, and Spanish subtitles; bonus materials in Romanian with optional English, Romanian and Spanish subtitles
Interviewees include: Monica Lovinescu, Ioana Magura Bernard, Mary Georgescu, Serban Orescu, Nestor Ratesh, Emil Hurezeanu
Director of photography, Andrei Butică ; editing, Cătălin F. Cristuțiu ; original music, Sorin Romanescu/Trust Productions
Bonus material: Making of; deleted scenes; trailer; photo gallery
Unique story of a part of Europe where nothing could travel freely except subversive radio waves. That was Radio Free Europe and it changed the minds and lives of several generations. "I grew up with it" says director Alexandru Solomon. "Every evening, in an underground atmosphere, my father listened to Radio Free Europe as anyone else did. While Ceausescu's propaganda had less and less to do with reality, Free Europe's Romanian section provided, apart from news, some hope. In thousands of houses and blocks across the country, millions performed this daily ritual. And, the next day, the words of Free Europe were on everybody's lips". While the Romanian population was lead by fear, the Romanian leaders were themselves afraid of Radio Free Europe. Dictator Ceausescu employed Carlos the Jackal, an international terrorist. They placed bombs at RFE's Munich headquarters, editors were attacked in Germany and France, three of the directors died after being X-rayed. Cold waves uncovers this unknown episode of the final stages of the Cold War. It also brings together characters that have never met before: the listeners, RFE's personnel, the regime and its killers. Cold Waves adds pictures where one only heard voices
