“ IRON CURTAIN LANDS “ 1959 POST-STALIN ERA SOVIET UNION & EASTERN EUROPE EDUCATIONAL FILM 89754

Iron Curtain lands. Post-Stalin Period. Copyright MCMLIX. Educational Supervision: Michael Boro Petrovich, PhD. Associate Professor of History, The University of Wisconsin. Photographed & directed by filmmaker and author Charles Dee Sharp. This 1959, color movie presents a cross-section of life in the lands considered to be behind the iron curtain after the rule of Joseph Stalin. It is a profile of the communist society. It takes us a step closer to understanding these lands ruled by an atheistic aristocracy. The movie opens with peasant women walking down the road. The camera pans around a plaza with churches in the background 1:12. Women kiss the paintings in a church 1:40. Three women sit on a bench and smile for the camera 1:53. A map of the Soviet Union is shown 2:14. A map shows the plains of Russia are riddled with river systems 2:35. A footbridge is shown 2:46. In rural Russia, peasants live much as they did hundreds of years ago 3:23. Man sharpens and axe 3:43. A woman tends to chickens 4:10. A w