Programme

PRL De Luxe
Poland | 2008 | col | 15 mins | dir. Edyta Wroblewska | cert. TBC

Crazy Mike from Krakow organises unusual tours for tourists from the West. He takes them to the Nowa Huta district in a clapped-out old bus, and visit relics of the past – the Stylowa restaurant, the place where Lenin’s monument used to stand, steelworks and a typical workers’ flat. Along the way he tells the tourists stories about the lure of life in communist Poland and the absurdities of real socialism.

Followed by:

Borderline Case (The last victim of the Iron Curtain)
Hungary | 2006 | col | 32 mins | dir. Péter Szalay | cert. TBC

August 1989. Kurt-Werner Schulz and Gundula Schafitel and their 6-year-old son head west leaving behind their home in Weimar in the German Democratic Republic.  They plan to cross the border illegally but cannot succeed if they stay together.
Meanwhile hundreds of East German citizens cross the Hungarian and Austrian borders on the occasion of the remarkable Pan-European Picnic on 19th August 1989.

fri 20 nov | 8.30pm | free | Hungarian Cultural Centre