Stories of 20th Century - Převrat (2019) (season)


Frontier Guards (S02E02)

(festival title) (episode)
  • Czech Republic Pohraničníci
Czech Republic, 2019, 26 min

Directed by:

Radim Špaček

Screenplay:

Adam Drda
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Plots(1)

In December 1989, the "Iron Curtain" that separated the Soviet Bloc from the Western world fell. Cutting the wires from the previously impenetrable borders is probably the most memorable symbol of the continent’s newly acquired freedom. But how did the former Border Patrol Officers see the events at the time? Their main task was not to patrol the borders against dangers from the outside world, but rather to hunt down citizens from Czechoslovakia and other countries of the Soviet Bloc who were trying to escape into the democratic world. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)

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