East Side Story (1997)
All Singing! All Dancing! All Marxist Musicals!
A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.
- Date of release
- 1997-06-25
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Genres
- Documentary, Music
- Director
- Dana Ranga
Interesting facts
East Side Story is a 1997 documentary directed by Dana Ranga. The film documents the Soviet Bloc musical genre, which first appeared under Stalin and spread to Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe. The film features interviews with actors, film historians, and audience members who reminisce on these unlikely films and their impact on Soviet Bloc life.
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