East Side Story
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In Theaters : 25 June, 1997 |
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Bolsheviks with bounce
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| Although a documentary about Communist movie musicals sounds like a Christopher Guest parody, this fascinating 1997 German production is the real deal, comrade. From the 1930s through the 1960s, over forty Iron Curtain films combined Socialism with song, labor with lyrics, propaganda with pirouettes, Russkies with rhythm, and Bolsheviks with bounce. Audiences in Russia, Bulgaria, East Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia were treated to such tune-laden escapist fare as TRACTOR DRIVERS, THE SWINEHERD AND THE SHEPHERD, VACATION ON THE BLACK SEA, COSSACKS OF THE KUBAN RIVER, and HARD WORK-HAPPY HOLIDAY. In addition to interviews with filmmakers, critics, and older Iron Curtain moviegoers sharing their youthful memories, the astonishingly rare footage unearthed by documentarians Dana Ranga and Andrew Horn will come as a revelation to even the most seasoned film buff. Now, that was entertainment-da! |
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