För första gången någonsin berättas sanningen om de dramatiska händelserna bakom Berlinmurens fall och en namnlös hjälte i ett storpolitiskt maktspel mellan USA och Sovjetunionen.
MacNamara är vd för Coca Cola i Västberlin 1961, precis innan muren byggs. När Scarlett, hans chefs dotter, kommer till staden måste MacNamara se efter henne; en knepig uppgift. När MacNamara märker att Scarlett träffar en östtysk kommunist anstränger han sig för att hålla detta hemligt för fadern, så att han själv får behålla sitt jobb.
Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset in a sensitive region. In order to stay out of jail, the Hollanders take refuge in the American Embassy, which is temporarily being run by the absent Ambassador's diplomatically incompetent son, Axel.
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.
Spionen Som Kom In Från Kylan: Glöm James Bond - och upplev den hårda, mörka och kalla tillvaro som verkliga spioner lever i. Oscar®-nominerade Richard Burton spelar den utbrände brittiske agenten som vägrar att komma in från kylan och ta ett vanligt kontorsjobb. Istället antar han sitt farligaste uppdrag någonsin, nämligen att skugga en östtysk agent, spelad av Golden Globe-vinnaren Oskar Werner. John Le Carrés bästsäljande roman utgör grunden för denna spännande thriller om spionage, intriger och svek. Skådespelarnas strålande insatser, det spänningsfyllda, fantastiska manuset och den mästerliga regin av Martin Ritt (Hud, Sounder) gör detta till en förstklassig film.
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
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...
En film om den okända rivalen på andra sidan järnridån. Intervision Song Contest arrangerades under kalla krigets mest frostiga tid och var ett socialistiskt svar på västmakternas Eurovision Song Contest. I augusti 1980 har spänningarna mellan öst och väst intensifierats när varvsarbetarna i Polen inleder en masstrejk. Då kliver artisten Marion Rung från Finland in på scenen. Med arkivmaterial från forna östeuropeiska tv-bolag och intervjuer med dem som var med, både i och utanför strålkastarljuset, skildras en tid då frihetstörstande östeuropéer hoppades att en musikfestival kunde göra skillnad.
A girl and a boy meet by a chance in unaware of consequences on one day. A modern parable inspired by true events.