a sign of the former germany that most outsiders never knew private recordings that are now public thanks to documentary filmmakers herskovitz political scientist lawrence mouthfuls the connected 415 hours of home movie reels showing what real life looks like for real people under the socialist regime. the resulting website open memory box allows visitors to click in english german french or russian watching clips from the archives of $149.00 german families. the footage is universal most of these films seem like they could have been filmed most anywhere in europe the people in them are just people living their lives despite the dictatorship. and with me here is alberto herskovitz one of the initiators of our project open memory box welcome to the show thank you now we hear
and speaking of german the world famous october fast with at least one big twist this october fest with hundreds of thousands of visitors isn t in germany at all so where is it. 1st off though and summit look at life inside the former east germany a dictatorship that hundreds of people died trying to escape now though almost 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall initiators of a new project called open memory box say it s time to finally start looking at other aspects of east germany too. personal memories recorded in a country that no longer exists. these home movies capture signs of the former germany that most outsiders never knew private recordings that are now public thanks to documentary filmmakers herskovitz