Documentary film 1989
A young technocrat, Mikls Nemeth, becomes Hungary's new prime minister to save the country's appalling economy in this creative documentary and high-politics drama about the collapse of the Iron Curtain. He then decides to remove the expensive border control apparatus from the state budget. A young couple from East Germany is encouraged by the rumours that the Hungarian border to Austria will be opened and decide to go for it. But Nemeth's decision has set him up against formidable adversaries and communist hardliners. The young couple are caught up in the political power-game, and the young man is shot dead at the border. This tragic event paradoxically accelerates Nemeth's final decision to open the borders, and soon after the Berlin wall falls. A feature documentary by Anders Ostergaard (previously Tintin and Me, and Burma VJ). Anders Ostergaard recreates the events of 1989 and invites the audience into the secret meeting rooms through a mixture of 'testimonials', archive material, recreation, and reconstructed dialogues lip-synch'ed to archive footage of the real political key characters.