Introduced by Orville Schell (Requiem fur Dominic). This is a political thriller with a very unsettling aspect, shot as it was in the midst of the Romanian revolution of 1989. Through a fictionalized account, Romanian-born director Robert Dornhelm (Echo Park) investigates the fate of a childhood friend, one Dominic Paraschiv, whose arrest and death in captivity made world-wide news. Dominic, we were told, was the so-called "Butcher of Timisoara" and agent of the Securitat. Dornhelm's protagonist/alter ego in the search for the truth about Dominic is an Austrian reporter (played by co-writer Felix Mitterer); other actors, both professional and non-professional, appear, but in every other way Dornhelm strips away the comforts of fictionalization. He casts his film into the chaos, using his own and others' documentary footage of the violence, the hundreds of dead bodies lying in a makeshift morgue, the chanting crowds...and finally, the real Dominic, videotaped in his prison bed where he was restrained by a large fishing net, begging for water, and whispering "Truth, like oil on water, will always rise to the top."