East Side Story (1997)

Directed by

Dana Ranga

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary looks at musicals made in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. It interviews actors, historians, and regular people who remember these surprisingly cheerful films and what they meant in a drab society.

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What happens

East Side Story is a 1997 documentary directed by Dana Ranga. The film documents the Soviet Bloc musical genre, which first appeared under Stalin and spread to Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe. The film features interviews with actors, film historians, and audience members who reminisce on these unlikely films and their impact on Soviet Bloc life. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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