An Ordinary Country

An Ordinary Country (2020)

April 17th, 20200h 53min

Documentary, History
45%

Overview

The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interrogations, recruitment attempts, recorded and filmed with hidden devices; of how the secret services spied on every activity of ordinary citizens: nothing escaped the brutal system of control developed by the Soviets in the name of freedom.


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