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Filmstill New Eldorado
New Eldorado
Tibor Kocsis
The Romanian village of Roșia Montană is believed to sit on a 300-ton gold deposit. Twenty years ago, Tibor Kocsis filmed the emergence of a protest movement against the mining project.
Filmstill New Eldorado

New Eldorado

Új Eldorádó
Tibor Kocsis
Re-Visions 2022
Documentary Film
Hungary
2004
76 minutes
English,
French,
German,
Hungarian,
Romanian
Subtitles: 
English

The biggest gold deposit in Europe is located underneath Roșia Montană, Romania. The ancient Romans dug shafts with hammers and chisels, later gunpowder and dynamite were used to mine the precious metal. But when the possibilities of traditional mining methods seem exhausted in the early 2000s, a Canadian company enters the scene, planning to pulverise the whole village and the four neighbouring mountains – and to use highly toxic hydrocyanic acid to extract the gold from the rock. Tibor Kocsis observes over several years how the corporation is trying to drive out the inhabitants of the village, and how a resistance is forming that lasts until today.

Marie Kloos

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Director
Tibor Kocsis
Cinematographer
Tibor Kocsis
Editor
György Márió Kövári
Producer
Tibor Kocsis