The Iron Curtain Diaries 1989 - 2009

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a movie director, two journalists, two photographers and a cartoonist traveled along the more than 4,000-mile-long Iron Curtain that split Eastern and Western Europe from the end of the Second World War until 1989. Their documentary uses a mix of video, photographs, sound recordings, and drawings to portray life two decades after the wall came down. Clicking on virtual locations along an interactive Iron Curtain brings up interviews and stories recorded at the locations. A journalist in Murmansk describes how his life changed after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, and we see the city's young generation at a dance school. In Lithuania, someone speaks about the tensions between Russians and the original Lithuanian population. On the outskirts of Rizo, a small town in the Czech Republic, there is still barbed wire: a threatening but impotent reminder of the Iron Curtain. The Iron Curtain Diaries project is a platform that uses various media to bring the world and history closer together, in a new and original way.

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