Dracula’s Shadow The Real Story Behind the Romanian Revolution
The documentary “Dracula’s Shadow: The Real Story Behind the Romanian Revolution” is being screened at various sites in the U.S. and Canada during May 2010 on a fundraising tour for the Hungarian Human Rights Foundation.
The film tells the story of how one May 1989 clandestine interview by former Quebec Cabinet Minister Michel Clair and Radio-Canada reporter Réjean Roy with Hungarian Reformed (Romanian Reformed Church) minister the Rev. László Tokés in Timisoara, Romania, changed history and led to the secret police-defying demonstrations of 15 December 1989 where hundreds of people risked their lives to defend the dissident pastor.
The Christian Observer too, played a role in this pivotal period in Romanian history by spiriting a mimeograph machine into Romania to the Rev. László Tokés, a friend of the late Christian Observer Publisher [and minister with standing in the Calvin Synod of the Hungarian Reformed Church] the Rev. Dr. Edwin Elliott, who accomplished the mission with the invaluable assistance of a Dutch television crew on the ground in Romania. Tokés used the mimeograph to have news about his plight quietly distributed throughout Romania in the months leading up to the December 1989 revolution.
Reprinted from Presbyterians Week
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