A unique, close-up recreation of the atmosphere surrounding the fall of Ceaucescu, this filmfocuses on the five days between the dictator's last speech and his execution, using amateur videos as well as never-broadcast Romanian television footage to piece together an account of the 1989 revolution from contradictory versions. "A sobering, critical, and exciting analysis of the revolution in Rumania....The shots may have lost their news value, but careful investigation, putting together a jigsaw puzzle of contradictory data, provides surprising insights (concerning) the operation of the modern media in general....Dozens of people were present with their video cameras, so there are multiple records of what the official media didn't want to see" (Rotterdam Film Festival). Film essayist Harun Farocki was the subject of a PFA/Goethe Institute retrospective last year.