produced, directed, and written by: Irene Lusztig / Komsomol Films

camera and sound: Maria Luisa Gambale and Irene Lusztig

editing: Irene Lusztig

assistant producer / director: Maria Luisa Gambale

sound design: Richie Williams

main project adviser: Richard P. Rogers

academic advisers: Radu Ioanid, Vladimir Tismaneanu

archival footage provided by: National Archive of Romania, Jilava / National Archive, Washington D.C.

featuring excerpts from the 1960 film Reconstituirea, produced in Bucharest by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in collaboration with the Alexandru Sahia documentary studio.

Reconstituirea director: Virgil Calotescu

Reconstituirea director of photography: N.N. Marinescu

Reconstituirea camera assistant: Pantelie Tutuleasa

Reconstituirea sound: Marin Alexandru

Reconstituirea editor: Eugenia Gruici

Reconstituirea music: Eugen Popescu

this film was funded by grants from: George Peabody Gardner Traveling Fellowship Massachusetts Media Fellowship

additional post-production support generously provided by The Film Study Center, Harvard University.
Reconstruction was edited at the Film Study Center from 1998 to 2001.


this film would not have been possible without the many generous people who shared their stories:

Moscu and Rodica Alcalay
Iona Atlas
Gadi Ben-Itzhak
Gheorghe Bratescu
Aurora and Cristi Dumitrescu
Sisi Iorgulescu
Menachem Karib
Nadia Klein
Shlomo Leibovici
Beni Lin
Maria and Paul Lupascu
Miki Lusztig
N.N. Marinescu
Simina Mezincescu
Mira Moscovici
Guy and Jeanine Neuberger
Ivan Sipos
Max Solomon
Magda Stroe
Vladimir Tismaneanu
Boci Talmon Weiss
Doni Dulitski Wolfson

North American Distribution:

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International Distribution:

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