Shortly after WWII, an impenetrable border divided Europe in two. it was called the Iron Curtain. For 40 years, 3,800 kilometres of fences, barbed wire and walls separated Western Europe from the Eastern Bloc. Who remembers? What do we know about the lives of those who lived on the other side for decades? Before the last witnesses disappeared, with the historians keeping the last traces of them, we wanted to know what remained of this scar of history.
The film, in the form of an investigation, will lead us to Berlin, of course, but also to two small towns in Germany and the Czech Republic with unusual border destinies. Their inhabitants still bear witness to all these complex feelings that those living in the East could feel towards the Iron Curtain: hatred, certainly, but also pride, security, absurdity, paranoia and even indifference. But, beyond this frontier, material and real, of which there are so few traces, the film tries with these witnesses to bring out the true face of this iron curtain; an implacable curtain that made people resign or adapt to this dictatorship. A curtain of which they still keep the silent wound deep inside.
Genre: History, Documentary
Director: Franck Cuveillier
Production: French Connection Films, Agent Double Productions, RTBF
Year: 2019
Length: 55 minutes
Languages : French, German, Czech, Polish
Partners: Mediawan Thematics, CNC, Belgian Tax Shelter
Broadcasters: Toute l’Histoire, RTBF (Belgium), TVP (Poland), RTP (Portugal), Odisea (Spain & Portugal), Ceska TV (Czech Republic), Current Time (Russia), RTVS (Slovakia), HRT (Croatia), Téléquebec, Emirates Cable TV
Distributor: Mediawan Rights
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