The Iron Curtain Diaries 1989 - 2009

    The Iron Curtain Diaries 1989 - 2009

    • Matteo Scanni, Angelo Miotto, Samuele Pellecchia, Guido Ostanel
    • Italy
    • 2009
    • 90 min
    • Digital, Linear
    • IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling, DocLab Program
    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.

    www.theironcurtaindiaries.org

    Credits

    • 90 min
    • color
    • Spoken languages: English, Russian, Polish, Italian, German
    • Subtitles in: English
    Director
    Matteo Scanni, Angelo Miotto, Samuele Pellecchia, Guido Ostanel
    Production
    Matteo Scanni for On Off, Angelo Miotto for Peace Reporter, Samuele Pellecchia for Prospekt Photographers, Guido Ostanel for Becco Giallo
    Cinematography
    Samuele Pellecchia, Massimo Sciacca
    Editing
    Angelo Miotto, Samuele Pellecchia, Matteo Scanni
    Sound
    Nicola Sessa, Matteo Scanni

    IDFA history

    2009
    Screened
    IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
    DocLab Program

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