Disco and Atomic War

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03/10/2011 I saw it and I want to see it again! It's amazing documentary of real life (idiotism) in Soviet Union! See more 12/04/2010 One of the best documentaries I have seen. Both informative and humorously amusing. See more 11/16/2010 Just a reminder to all of us who was growing up behind the iron curtain. Painfully entertaining and truthful. P.S. Soviet occupied Estonia in 80's still lived better than my family in Moscow. See more 08/15/2010 Disco and Atomic War is an entertaining and intriguing documentary about a lesser known aspect of the later years of the Soviet Union. It focuses on how people in Northern Estonia were able to peek out from behind the Iron Curtain through Finnish television and radio, which enables the people to learn about things such as, well, Disco. The way the information is presented is entertaining. They use clips of television shows and commercials of the time and tell amusing stories of the inhabitants of Tallinn (the capital of Estonia, located in the North), and of the powers that be, who tried to somehow control the "westernizing" of the local people. The stories are somewhat absurd, and provide some fun humor into this documentary, a genre of movie which usually isn't all that "entertaining". The effects of the subject matter, tv and radio, on the fall of the Soviet Union is blown a bit out of proportion, but that is normal for a documentary. This is an excellent film about a topic, that is not as well known, even by the younger people in Estonia, who weren't alive at the time. Final rating: 9/10 See more 07/31/2010 Wonderful Finnish/Estonian documentary about the Cold War broadcasting wars in the 1980s between Finland and Estonia (then part of the USSR). Separated by a narrow body of water, Estonians could pick up Finnish broadcasts with appropriate adjustments to their television receivers. By this means, they were able to view such TV classics of Dallas and Knight Rider. They were also exposed to Western opulence and the disco craze. There was an element of hide and seek between the authorities and the underground Western broadcast Estonian culture. The cultural influence of this soft revolution is chronicled in humorous detail as kids talked to their watches in front of foreign cars ala Knight Rider and people read about the latest episode of Dallas at small village gatherings for those who did not have access to the broadcast. See more Read all reviews

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