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East-West Passage (2010)

Directed by Gábor Zsigmond Papp

Documentary · 52m

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

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Cast

Crew

Director
Gábor Zsigmond Papp
Writer
Gábor Zsigmond Papp, Miklós Tamási

Details

Original title
Kelet-nyugati átjáró
Release date
2010-02-02
Runtime
52m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
HU
Spoken languages
Hungarian
Countries
Hungary
Production
Bologna Film, Magyar Mozgókép Alapítvány