"We were shooting the scene where Carol Stevens, on the road into Bucharest, sees a row of crosses near a building from the Stalinian period. She stops the taxi and prays in front of them. These crosses were set up during the revolution as a memorial to the children killed in this place. It was a film set. I turned my back at one point and thought I heard children's voices, those of the dead children. I was convinced that I was hallucinating. When I turn round again, I saw a group of children who hadn't realized that we were shooting and thought that it was a real memorial. All the children were overwhelmed. I asked them if they would like to be in my film. They came back an hour later with their parent's permission. It was an agonizing hour for me because I knew that this scene was powerful and important for the film. And so, thanks to these children, an ordinary scene became something magical."
(David Wheatley)