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Looking back on their own lives, dissident Poles, Hungarians, Czechs and Germans embody the chronicle of the struggles against the communist dictatorship that led to the major upheavals of the 90s. By comparing and contrasting the testimonies of those who, in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the GDR, fought the existing regimes, this documentary retraces the stages in the process of democratization in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc. From the election of Pope Jean-Paul II and his pilgrimages to Poland to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the negotiations between the Polish government and Solidarnosc, the documents in this film map out the decline of communism and the rise of the democratic opposition. But integration into the capitalist system has posed new problems and put the old opposition in awkward position.

Poland / France - 2002 - 59 mn - Betacam SP - Colour

Director Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz Script Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, Leszek Koczanowicz based on Dorota Roszkowska Camera Andrzej Adamczak Sound Krzysztof Rzepecki, Jedrzej Niestroj Editing Grazyna Gradon

Production Telewizja Polska SA, ul. Jana Pawla Woronicza 17, 00-999 Varsovie, Pologne Tél : +48 22 547 8903 Fax : +48 22 547 7796 E-mail : festivals@tvp.pl Co-Production ARTE G.E.I.E.

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