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East-West Passage

201052mGábor Zsigmond Papp

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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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EscapePoliticsGerman Democratic RepublicSocialismHungaryPassport1980sFall Of Communism

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What is East-West Passage (2010) about?

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…

Who stars in East-West Passage?

East-West Passage stars Aurél Hajtó (Narrator (voice)). The film was directed by Gábor Zsigmond Papp.

How long is East-West Passage?

East-West Passage has a runtime of 52 min and premiered in 2010.

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