1989
90 min. Documentary, 2014
D: Anders Østergaard, Erzsébet Rácz
D: Anders Østergaard, Erzsébet Rácz
The film ventures deep into the high-risk political game that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Europe by visiting the secret rooms where political battles were fought and history made. The two central ‘witnesses’ are former Hungarian prime minister Miklós Németh, representing the macro political level, and Gundula, the surviving half of an East German couple who was the last to fatally attempt to cross the border, representing the individual, private level.
The narrative structure and the overall articulation of the film had to follow a fictional type of suspensional storytelling. The film uses a cutting edge approach to documentary recreation, which - interwoven with testimonials and archive material - forms a rich and cinematic tapestry of events.
www.1989thefilm.com
Festivals, Awards:
opening film at CPH:DOX, screened at 30+ festivals; won ONDAS TV AWARD for "Best TV Production of the Year", Prix Italia for best TV Documentary, Carl Th. Dreyer Award
The narrative structure and the overall articulation of the film had to follow a fictional type of suspensional storytelling. The film uses a cutting edge approach to documentary recreation, which - interwoven with testimonials and archive material - forms a rich and cinematic tapestry of events.
www.1989thefilm.com
Festivals, Awards:
opening film at CPH:DOX, screened at 30+ festivals; won ONDAS TV AWARD for "Best TV Production of the Year", Prix Italia for best TV Documentary, Carl Th. Dreyer Award