89 mm od Europy . 89 mm from Europe
The short documentary is one of the finest statements made on the prevailing atmosphere of the Cold War in post-perestroika, post-Cold War Europe. The film sketches the transition between two different worlds: Europe and the former Soviet Union. The scene is the railway station at Brest-Litovsk. Bef...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Polish |
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Poland
1993
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:0b57de3f-5a34-4ac4-b483-a3131a8f56d7 |
| _version_ | 1771404965394251778 |
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| author2 | Lozinski, Marcel |
| author_facet | Lozinski, Marcel |
| collection | OSA Film Library |
| dateSpan | 1993 |
| description | The short documentary is one of the finest statements made on the prevailing atmosphere of the Cold War in post-perestroika, post-Cold War Europe. The film sketches the transition between two different worlds: Europe and the former Soviet Union. The scene is the railway station at Brest-Litovsk. Before a train can move on from Poland to Belorussia, the wheels of each of the carriages have to be adjusted to meet the conditions of a wider gauge a difference of only »89 mm« yet symbolic for the huge transformation from one mind-set to another. Meanwhile, while the changes are being made, train passengers from France and Germany, Holland and Poland, watch the ceremony mutely as much in dismay as in disbelief. |
| genre | libraryUnit |
| geographic | Poland |
| id | bulk_65A3DB85-3AA4-46C3-9996-AC9A507303F5 |
| institution | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| language | Polish |
| publishDate | 1993 |
| publisher | Poland |
| spellingShingle | 89 mm od Europy . 89 mm from Europe [Documentary film] |
| title | 89 mm od Europy . 89 mm from Europe |
| topic | [Documentary film] |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:0b57de3f-5a34-4ac4-b483-a3131a8f56d7 |