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East Side Story

  • 1997
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  • 1h 15m
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7.2/10
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East Side Story (1997)
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A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.

  • Director
    • Dana Ranga
  • Writers
    • Andrew Horn
    • Dana Ranga
  • Stars
    • Margarita Andrushkovich
    • Chris Doerk
    • Erich Gusko
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
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    • Director
      • Dana Ranga
    • Writers
      • Andrew Horn
      • Dana Ranga
    • Stars
      • Margarita Andrushkovich
      • Chris Doerk
      • Erich Gusko
    • 7User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Margarita Andrushkovich
    • Self
    • (as Margarita Andruschkovitsch)
    Chris Doerk
    • Self
    Erich Gusko
    • Self
    Helmut Hanke
    • Self
    Barbara Harnisch
    • Party Girl
    Brit Krüger
    • Party Girl
    Andrea Schmidt
    • Party Girl
    Karin Schröder
    • Self
    Frank Schöbel
    Frank Schöbel
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    Maya Turovskaya
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    Brigitte Ulbrich
    • Self
    Hans-Joachim Wallstein
    • Self
    Nikolai Bulganin
    Nikolai Bulganin
    • Self (watches military parade)
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Nikita Khrushchev
    Nikita Khrushchev
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Marina Ladynina
    Marina Ladynina
    • Various roles
    • (archive footage)
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    Vladimir Lenin
    Vladimir Lenin
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Anastas Mikoyan
    Anastas Mikoyan
    • Self (watches military parade)
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Vyacheslav Molotov
    Vyacheslav Molotov
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Dana Ranga
    • Writers
      • Andrew Horn
      • Dana Ranga
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      Narrator: This is the odyssey of a filmmaker searching for music, fun and colors in the world of ambiguity and suspicion - the world behind the Iron Curtain.

    • Crazy credits
      The end credits dedicate the film "to Karl Marx, without whom none of this would have been necessary."
    • Connections
      Featured in The Movie Show: Episode dated 15 June 1997 (1997)

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    8/10
    Informative and entertaining documentary
    East Side Story entertains and informs about an unknown part of Cold War history. What is the purpose of any documentary? To inform the reader through commentary and footage. This one succeeds at both. You will never find many movies whose clips you get to see in here because some of them have been destroyed and some are unaccessible.

    You get to see and her music from musicals made in East Germany, Russia, and other countries under Soviet Control. It shows you that the people who made these movies and the people who watched them all look for same things a Westerner would look for, which are pretty women and men singing and dancing on the streets with smiles and (hopefully) white teeth.
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    • Release date
      • September 25, 1997 (Germany)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Germany
    • Languages
      • German
      • Russian
      • Polish
      • Romanian
      • Bulgarian
      • Czech
    • Also known as
      • Истсайдская история
    • Filming locations
      • DEFA Studio für Dokfilm, Babelsberg, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany(Studio)
    • Production companies
      • Anda Film
      • Canal+
      • DocStar
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      1 hour 15 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
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