Dracula's Shadow - The Real Story Behind the Romanian Revolution
Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:00
at
the Hungarian Cultural Centre
10 Maiden Lane
London WC2E 7NA
Underground: Covent Garden
For reservations please call 020 72406162 or e-mail bookings@hungary.org.uk
The film
Dracula's Shadow - The Real Story Behind the Romanian Revolution is a documentary film that reveals the secret mission from Canada (two French-Canadians - Michael Clair, a former Cabinet Minister in the Parti Quebecois, and Rejean Roy, a reporter for Radio-Canada, worked together) in March 1989 to tape a clandestine TV interview with Romania's biggest dissident, Laszlo Tokes, that would later spark the Romanian Revolution
The Director/Producer
Árpád Szöczi
(with Co-Producer Ádám Neményi (left) after the awards ceremony at the Hungarian Film Week, Feb. 8, 2010)
Canadian-born producer/director Árpád Szöczi actually took part in that clandestine mission. He uses his exclusive access to people, files and inside information to reveal shocking details.
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Laszlo Tokes
Laszlo Tokes (born 1952) is a Romanian politician, member of the European Parliament, a former honourary president of the Democratic Union of Hungarians of Romania, founding member and president of the Hungarian National Council of Transylvania.
He helped trigger the Romanian Revolution in 1989, which overthrew Nicolae Ceausescu and spelled the end of the communist era in Romania.
In June 20029, in Washington D.C., he was awarded the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom for his role in the struggles against Romanian Communism.
In May 2010, he becam one of the 14 vice-presidents of the European Parliament.
