East Side Story

1997
1h 15m

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A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.

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7.2/10

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Awards
- 1 nomination total

Top cast22

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Margarita Andrushkovich

Self
(as Margarita Andruschkovitsch)

Chris Doerk

Self

Erich Gusko

Self

Helmut Hanke

Self

Barbara Harnisch

Party Girl

Brit Krüger

Party Girl

Andrea Schmidt

Party Girl

Karin Schröder

Self

Frank Schöbel

Self

Maya Turovskaya

Self (film historian)

Brigitte Ulbrich

Self

Hans-Joachim Wallstein

Self

Nikolai Bulganin

Self (watches military parade)
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Nikita Khrushchev

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Marina Ladynina

Various roles
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Vladimir Lenin

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Anastas Mikoyan

Self (watches military parade)
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Vyacheslav Molotov

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Director
- Dana Ranga
Writers
- Andrew Horn
- Dana Ranga
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User reviews7

Featured review

8/10

Informative and entertaining documentary

East Side Story entertains and informs about an unknown part of Cold War history. What is the purpose of any documentary? To inform the reader through commentary and footage. This one succeeds at both. You will never find many movies whose clips you get to see in here because some of them have been destroyed and some are unaccessible.

You get to see and her music from musicals made in East Germany, Russia, and other countries under Soviet Control. It shows you that the people who made these movies and the people who watched them all look for same things a Westerner would look for, which are pretty women and men singing and dancing on the streets with smiles and (hopefully) white teeth.

Quotes
Narrator: This is the odyssey of a filmmaker searching for music, fun and colors in the world of ambiguity and suspicion - the world behind the Iron Curtain.