East-West Passage

East-West Passage

2010 hu 52 minutes

Rating: 6

Plot

In the summer of 1989 tens of thousands of tourists from communist East Germany came to Hungary. They were deeply disillusioned because they felt they had no future in East Germany. There was no freedom, no choice in the shops, salaries were low and they could not travel except to Eastern Europe. They wanted to go to a prosperous and free West Germany but they could not get passports, so they hoped that by travelling through Hungary, the least suppressed country of the Soviet Block, they could cross the Iron Curtain into Austria and then travel on into West Germany. For them the Hungary of twenty years ago was the new east-west passage. Written by Czes

Trailer

Trailer's not available.

Cast

Aurél Hajtó

Aurél Hajtó

Narrator (voice)

Similar Movies

Alfred

Alfred

de

December 31, 1986

Rok stalinské epochy

Rok stalinské epochy

cs

October 26, 1951

Hungarian Retro 2.

Hungarian Retro 2.

hu

January 23, 2014

Nos deux Marseillaises

Nos deux Marseillaises

fr

June 1, 2001

The Bubble

The Bubble

en

July 12, 2018

The Red Princess

The Red Princess

fr

April 4, 2022

I Am My Own Woman

I Am My Own Woman

de

October 30, 1992

Accidental Anarchist

Accidental Anarchist

en

July 23, 2017

Our Children

Our Children

de

November 30, 1989

Blood Amber

Blood Amber

my

August 23, 2017

Cesta ke svobodě

Cesta ke svobodě

cs

November 17, 2019

The American Question

The American Question

en

October 29, 2024