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
Release Date: 2/2/2010
Runtime: 52 minutes
Languages: Hungarian
Director: Gábor Zsigmond Papp
00Companies: Bologna Film, Magyar Mozgókép Alapítvány
Countries: Hungary
2005

2025

2003

2005

2006

2005

2016

2016
1932

1992

2003

2024

2006