An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the US.
Una commedia sulla guerra fredda dal ritmo indiavolato, che dipinge la Berlino divisa dal muro e lo scontro tra comunismo e capitalismo, evidenziando le magagne di entrambi i sistemi facendo ridere dall'inizio alla fine, attraverso la storia di un dirigente che deve badare alla bella ereditiera della Coca Cola innamorata di un comunista.
1961. In un paese europeo sotto l’influenza russa, all’ambasciata americana arrivano tre cittadini statunitensi che la folla rischia di linciare. Sono una coppia di mezza età, gli Hollander, e la figlia ventenne, accusati di spionaggio per aver fatto delle foto per strada. L’ambasciatore è in realtà il figlio pasticcione del vero ambasciatore; i piani per rimpatriare gli Hollander falliscono tutti.
Hans and Jan Bitner live separated from each other by an iron curtain. Hans works in an office in Strasbourg, he leads a quiet, almost monotonous life. Bitner is a Polish patriot, involved in the affairs of "Solidarity" and the fight for a free Poland. He lives in Sopot with his family. Seemingly, their lives are completely different, but there is one detail that connected their lives forever. Both will have to answer very important questions about their identity.
Alec, agente segreto britannico in missione a Berlino, ritorna a Londra in seguito alla morte di un suo informatore avvenuta per mano dell'ex nazista Mundt, capo del controspionaggio della Germania dell'Est. Ad Alec viene ordinato di catturarlo, finge di essere un alcolizzato per mettersi in contatto proprio con Mundt. Spedito in prigione a causa di una lite, Alec viene avvicinato da un emissario della spia tedesca.
Siamo nel pieno della Guerra Fredda, e il Kgb è sulle tracce di cinque dissidenti sovietici che si sono rifugiati in Occidente. I killer inviati dal Cremlino stanno per raggiungere il loro scopo, stanno cioè per eliminarli. Vengono in loro aiuto un agente dei servizi segreti americani e una sua amica: i due cercano in tutti i modi di proteggerli e di salvarli da morte sicura, ma non sarà facile perché i killer non hanno scupoli e vanno dritti verso il loro scopo...
In Soviet-era Estonia, three young mavericks drop everything and flee to Sweden, but soon learn the free world is not all it's cracked up to be.
A girl visiting modern day East Germany with her estranged father begins reliving the horrifying events that happened to a young girl living there during World War II.
Live to tell the truth. What can one man do against the most lethal army on earth? Local fishermen/smugglers/tourist guides Tom, Lars and Sverre discover the Soviet Union aren't just mining for coal in the arctic archipelago of Svalbard. This is a secret too big for any of them, and soon they find themselves hunted down by Soviet forces and secret agents.
An American spy tries desperately to get out from behind the Iron Curtain with some crucial microfilm with the Communist security police close on his heels.
Red Terror documents the soviet occupation of Lithuania and the resistance movements that sprang up in opposition to the brutal tactics used by the communists from 1941 up to 1991. Stories of deportation, life in the Gulag, exile to Siberia, KGB prison torture, confiscation of land are told by living survivors. Resistance fighters and those who aided them also share their stories for the first time to an American audience. Rare historical photos and moving images are used to bring these stories to life.
A confrontation of two worlds-- Two rooms, one of which is full of light and colors, the other a monotonous gray.
This film is a story about that time in the Baltics, Latvia, and Riga. Young rebels of 1960s – nonconformists, hippies and beatniks – have turned into a generation of well-known writers, poets, musicians, directors, as well as politicians of the new independent Latvia. The ones who were 18, 20, or 25 in 1960s are half a century older today. The protagonists of the film are united by the bohemian gathering place of their youth, a small nameless cafe in the Old Town of Riga, commonly referred to as “Kaza” (The Goat). This place is surrounded by legends, myths and humorous stories.
When the Iron Curtain cuts his tiny German village in half, Peter the bull gets separated from his 36 cows. Based on a true story narrated by Christoph Waltz.
A Hungarian Secret Service official attempts to defect the country and earn political asylum in the West.
2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall examines the relationship between the West and the USSR in his inimitable fashion.
1978. In a desperate act of love, a plane is hijacked in East Germany and forced to land in the American Sector of West Berlin, triggering a Cold War crisis and forcing 60 hapless passengers to decide in minutes whether to give up everything and stay in the West...
Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuses on Finland's participation and the shipyard strikes in Gdansk at the time.
A girl and a boy meet by a chance in unaware of consequences on one day. A modern parable inspired by true events.
