Actor Victor Rebengiuc on the Romanian revolution

The 75-year-old actor, Victor Rebengiuc, is among Romania's most famous film actors who made a name for himself as an unconventional thinker even before the fall of communism. In an interview with Ovidiu Simonca, he recalls the revolutionary days of 1989, when the old political class took over state television: "On December 23th 1989, those who had glorified Ceausescu just an hour ago appeared on the screen and tried to pretend innocence. They talked a load of rubbish, as though they never had anything to do with our fate. My boy said to me back then: 'Father, aren't you going to do something about it?' ... In a live transmission I recited a poem, held up a toilet roll in front of the cameras and said: You should all wipe your mouths after talking so much rubbish. ... Today nothing happens; the entire political class is united. There is no one to vote for because they're all the same. How is it that members of parliament become millionaires within four years, I'd like to know. Where does all this sudden wealth come from?"

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