1989

The documentary takes up the year 1989. That year the Berlin Wall came down. But the film looks mainly at Hungary. What happened in Hungary was the prelude to the change in November. The work handles that process like an investigation. The account goes into the closed meeting rooms of politicians. The decisions taken there are at the centre of it. The director uses three kinds of material together. The first is interviews. The second is archive footage. The third is reconstructed scenes and dialogue. The three of them bring the events back. Anders Østergaard and Erzsébet Rácz’s Danish, German, Hungarian and Norwegian coproduction of 2014 runs eighty five minutes.