Piata Universitatii - Romania

A movie about a crisis. About communism and his shadow, about lie and Utopia, hypocrisy like normal way to live. Chronicle of a great disappoint, it is today more topical. The present Romania is the projection of this event, strange, vital and unrealistic. The fight with history- that is the definition of those days and nights in Bucarest's middle. Stere Gulea's documentary is proof and testimony and, for few years, the reason of hope. After a decade and half, after every experience of an original democracy, is it important that moment? May change the perception about the artlessness of a society? Can offer the peace with our personal past? No! The documentary is only a slice of a time. Our time, but in so many aspects a time lost for many Romanians.

it is a manifesto. preserving the state of few weeks in which, after the fall of Communist regime, the hope was the most important thing. it is a proof. about an unique social event , about the birth of Romanian democracy, about the manner of the second wave of Communists to conquer and preserve the political power. the air of Romanticism, the freedom as ideal and as state of soul, a kind of Woodstock in a very personal manner, words and songs and the exercise, a pure and total idealistic exercise, to change the history. after decades, only support for memories. or for reflection. about a form of promise. about a form of courage. and about the need to be free. more important, a film about illusions. from a country in which illusions and corruption and frustrations are a fascinating mix.and this fact does Piața Universității fascinating yet. and a slice of present. because the past represents for Romanians the only alternative to the always gray present. and the only manner to self legitimate theirs attitudes, gestures, innocence and desires.

Highly political, this was the only way people learned the truth about University Square and the demonstrators. Truth and courage is what best characterizes this film. Unfortunately, the movie, which speaks directly to romanians, has not been showed on tv for a long time now and it's not available on video :)