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
political scientist lawrence murphy folds 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 the words in english german french or russian watching clips from the archives of 149 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 . we hear a lot of people from germany said yes it was a dictatorship but it wasn t all bad is that part of what this project is trying to
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will communism has also left its mark making a cultural mix together is the motto of this european capital of culture. gallery owner vessel enough savvy you shows us her hometown. place where. minorities meet turkey juhi. our main young people are all my people and of course while gary and band they are all proud of their almost 2000 year old roman theater which hosts events throughout the summer there is more history in the archaeological museum the world famous pentagon treasure ritual thracian drinking vessels made of 6 kilograms of gold. in the center of the city gallery sorry it was one of the initiators of the exhibition listen to us one of the capital of culture events beaches contemporary. not from europe spoken states.
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