after the fall of the wall
Overview of films
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Barabaniada
Film with no dialogue: about a naive and good man, a Buster Keaton type, who gets a drum from a dead man and roams post-totalitarian Russia with it. I
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Is It Easy to Be….?
The sequel to the first Perestroika documentary ‘Is It Easy To Be Young’ by J. Podnieks about young people in Latvia. Ten years later the crew follows
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The Powder Keg
A series of fictional events set in Belgrade in November 1995, the night of the Dayton agreement. The director is mainly worried about the ordinary pe
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Long Journey by Train
Vali is twenty-three, still lives with his father, earns his living as a nightwatchman for a shop and dreams of a better life in the West. To realise
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Russian Enigma
An interview with the ex-Soviet president Michail Gorbatchov about his life now.
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The Day of Full Moon
A lot happens at full moon. More than eighty characters in this unusual film are linked by a wonderful stream of events that take the spectators along
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Beshkempir
According to ancient Kyrgyz tradition, a couple with a large family gives a newborn baby to another couple without children. When Beshkempir finds out
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Die Mauer
A real must for anyone who wants to relive the exciting time of the Eastern European revolution one more time, by looking at the Berlin Wall that has
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Smoke
A post-modern, metaphorical parody of the totalitarian Communist regime. Performed by young avant-garde actors from Prague and made in the style of si
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Poznan ’56
A story from Polish history that has always been taboo. The well-known strike in Poznan in 1956 was oppressed in a gruesome way. Events are told from
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Bolshe Vita
In the hectic summer of 1989, Hungary opened its border to the West. Musicians from Russia, smugglers, Mafiosi or British and American women looking f