1989 / First Hand Films ; Eurimages ; Magic Hour Films ; in coproduction with DR/ZDF/RBB/VPRO ; in association with ARTE/NRK/YLE/Česká Televize/UR ; a film by Anders Östergaard & Erzsébet Rácz ; director, Anders Östergaard ; co-director, Erzsébet Rácz ; script, Erzsébet Rácz & Anders Östergaard ; producer, Lise Lense-Møller ; produced by Magic Hour Films.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Östergaard, Anders, film director, screenwriter.

Rácz, Erzsébet, film director, screenwriter.

Lense-Møller, Lise, film producer.

Németh, Miklós, narrator.

Magic Hour Films.

First Hand Films (Firm)

Eurimages (Organization)

Danmarks radio.

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.

Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg.

VPRO.

Icarus Films.

Language:

English

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

Németh, Miklós.

Hungary--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Hungary.

Politics and government.

Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.

World politics--1985-1995.

World politics.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (58 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Other Title:

Available from some providers with subtitle: Statesman opens up

Place of Publication:

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by Icarus Films], [2015]

Language Note:

In English and Hungarian, with English subtitles.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

Forty-year-old academic economist Miklos Nemeth was more surprised than anyone when he was named Prime Minister of Hungary. It was 1989, and the Communist system was on the brink of collapse. Nemeth, an outsider with few friends in the Party, was charged with the seemingly impossible task of saving the country from bankruptcy. This films depicts how this political ingenue guided Hungary through its most critical period in three decades--and laid the groundwork for the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Participant:

Featuring, Miklós Németh.

Credits:

Editors, Pernille Bech-Christensen, Szilvia Ruszev - BFS, Thomas Papapetros ; director of photography, Simon Plum - DFF ; composer, Stein Berge Svendsen.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: Magic Hour Films, c2014.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed August 18, 2015).

Publisher Number:

if-1989 Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.