When thousands trapped in a garden changed history forever.
“Liberty Train – Bürger’s Long Journey” sheds light on the events of the PEACEFUL REVOLUTION of 1989 from different perspectives. It centres on the eyewitnesses who, together with thousands of other people who had fled East Germany, were in the garden of the West German Embassy in Prague on the evening of the 30 September 1989.
Direction
Reenactments that feel like memory, not Hollywood.
Production
Archival footage woven with intimate witness accounts.
Director
Matthias Schmidt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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