To Paris
– Soviet youngster Alexey communicates with a fellow radiofan from France and makes big plans for his ..
Soviet youngster Alexey communicates with a fellow radiofan from France and makes big plans for his future. His hardworking blue-collar father Ivan is getting ready to join The Communist Party. Everything changes when Ivan's girlfriend is falsely accused in defalcation. Ivan decides to get the money by any means to help his beloved avoid the incarceration. He lets Alexey into his plans, and that triggers a chain of tragic events in this USSR-set drama. Loosely based on real events.
01 Apr 2009
French
Paul Cowan
Paul Cowan, Margaret MacMillan (book)
David Lowe, Paul Bandey, Yan Brian, Jean-Gabriel Nordmann
Using archival footage and dramatic re-enactments, this documentary deals with the immediate aftermath of the 1918 armistice that brought World War I to an end. From January to July 1919, the Paris Peace Conference dealt not only with issues related to Germany but with the thorny issue of national boundaries in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. From this conference emerged Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia; the annexation of parts of Germany by other countries; the creation of Iraq; and the transfer of German colonies in Africa and China to new colonial masters. It also led to the creation of the League of Nations, championed by President Woodrow Wilson but which the US never joined. When they finally dealt with the issue of war reparations, they imposed a payments schedule on Germany that many believe provided the underpinnings of World War II.
2 wins.