EAST SIDE STORY
East Side
Story
(Astronaut) Story
Cosmonaut
Polyakov
Oh,
Adam
EAST SIDE STORY
Documentary
(77'), 1997
PRESS
Time: "One of the 1997 top ten movies."
New York Times: "Among the many delights of East Side Story is the fact
that its seriousness and humor are so closely intertwined."
Le Monde: "A rich and astonishing documentary."
TV Today: "A very entertaining history lesson about the subversive
power of having fun."
Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2011: "An absolute must for film buffs."
SYNOPSIS
"It's easier to go ice skating in the desert than to make a socialist
musical" - this line of a song from an East German Musical, Midnight
Revue and at the same time the essence of East Side Story. Singing
tractor drivers and dancing factory workers in fitted overalls looking
for the socialist Cinderella? This documentary shows a world behind the
Iron Curtain that the Western World hadn't ever been able to imagine.
This documentary essay is based on clips from eastern European film
musicals intertwined with interviews of some of the filmmakers and film
critics of that time.
East Side Story has had cinematic and TV distribution in Germany, the
US, Great
Britain, Italy, France, Australia, Spain, Belgium, Brazil and Israel.
It has enjoyed wide critical acclaim and has toured various
international film festivals: Sundance, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Berlin,
Sydney, Munich, Banff, Montreal, Seattle, Karlovy Vary, Istanbul, San
Remo, Pusan, Pessac, San Sebastian, Sao Paulo, Tampere, Wien, Tokyo,
Ljubljana, New Delhi, Marseille and many more.
“Prix
CNC Images de
la Culture”,
Festival International du Documentaire Marseille,
1998
