East Side Story

Directed by Dana Ranga
1997    78m
Documentary, Music
7.2100%
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"That's Entertainment!," Communist style. A documentary about movie musicals produced during the height of the old Soviet bloc. Comrades drive tractors, sweep factory floors, feed farm animals, harvest crops, all the while singing their hearts out about the joys of socialism. Included are interviews with people involved in the making of some of these movies, as well as a film historian and nostalgic moviegoers.
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Cast of East Side Story
  • Margarita AndrushkovichSelf
  • Chris DoerkSelf
  • Erich GuskoSelf
  • Helmut HankeSelf
  • Barbara HarnischParty Girl
  • Brit KrügerParty Girl
  • Andrea SchmidtParty Girl
  • Karin SchröderSelf
  • Frank SchöbelSelf
  • Maya TurovskayaSelf (film historian)
  • Brigitte UlbrichSelf
  • Hans-Joachim WallsteinSelf
  • Nikolai BulganinSelf (watches military parade)
  • Nikita KhrushchevSelf
  • Marina LadyninaVarious roles
  • Vladimir LeninSelf
  • Anastas MikoyanSelf (watches military parade)
  • Vyacheslav MolotovSelf
  • Lyubov OrlovaVarious roles
  • Dana RangaNarrator
  • Joseph StalinSelf
  • Walter UlbrichtSelf

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