2009 · documentary · historical · pop-culture
Disco and Atomic War
Directed by Jaak Kilmi1h 18m2009
A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.
Our read: Disco and Atomic War (2009) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive documentary · historical · pop-culture entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle documentary / historical, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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