[lbo-talk] Räzboi Pe Calea Undelor (Cold Waves)

Joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Thu Mar 13 21:53:32 PDT 2008


That's a mistranslation. The correct translation is figuratively: "War on the Wavelengths" and literally "War on the Path of the Waves."

Colin Brace wrote:
> Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceauescu had many enemies, but the one he feared
> the most was invisible and untouchable - Radio Free Europe. So paranoid was
> he about its potential to encourage dissent, he even went as far as trying
> to hire infamous assassin Carlos the Jackal to help close it down.
>
> DJ's, listeners, secret policemen, terrorists – all share their stories in
> this film about a Europe that no longer exists in which the only thing that
> could travel freely was a simple, subversive radio wave.
>
> Followed by Q&A with director Alexandru Solomon and journalists from Radio
> Free Europe.
>
> http://www.pocketvisions.co.uk/lidf/?p=117
>



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