Although like the Cold War itself, the film does drag on at times, "Disco" really is a delight.
Disco and Atomic War(Disko ja tuumasõda)
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Estonia, Finland · 2009
1h 18m
Director Jaak Kilmi
Starring Kiur Aarma, Jaak Kilmi, Alo Kõrve, Jaan Tootsen
Genre Documentary
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This documentary focuses on growing up in the Soviet Union, where a totalitarian regime stands face to face with the heroes of popular culture and loses. Western popular culture had an incomparable role in shaping Soviet children's world views in those days. Director Jaak Kilmi talks about how TV shaped his upbringing in Communist Estonia.
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New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier
Director Jaak Kilmi's remembrance of growing up under Soviet rule never tries to be anything more than a curiosity.
The fancifulness wears out its welcome, though, and you often wish the film would treat its subject with a bit more seriousness.
It's difficult to get a firm grip on most of what Disco and Atomic War, constructed in a mish-mash collage style, has to offer.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Disco and Atomic War describes propaganda battles between the Soviet Union and the West, with Estonian Communist officials charged to gain the upper hand, but they were helpless amid the onslaught.
Now it can be told. The erotic film "Emmanuelle" helped end the Cold War. That's one tasty tidbit from Disco and Atomic War, a subversively funny documentary.
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