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In the days following the departure of the Ceausescu’s, during the Romanian revolution in 1989, two armoured squads of Interior Ministry troops went to protect a military unit. They were accidentally butchered. This is a searing, powerful film inspired by this true life tragic incident.

Lieutenant Neagu's, armoured unit is ordered to patrol the suburbs. Their radio works only intermittently. Communications with other armoured units and fragments of radio and TV broadcasts give vague reports of ""terrorist"" attacks on the national television station held by anti-Ceausescu forces.
It is a night of confusion for the members of this unit as they receive their orders via television from poets and actors. Chaos reigns throughout as radios transmit garbled signals, arms are distributed to civilians and gypsies are arrested as Arab terrorists.

The Paper Will Be Blue is the story of the loss of innocence of a generation of Romanian people, and of a popular rebellion that brought out the best and the worst in them. The solidarity of the movement was coupled with a selfishness and resentment which had accumulated over decades of frustration…

Cottbus Film Festival of Young Eastern European Cinema – Best Director, Special Prize – 2006
Namur International Film Festival – Jury Special Prize – 2006

Dir. Radu Muntean, 2006, Romania, 95 mins, Cert 15, Transilvania Film