An Ordinary Country (2020)

Name: An Ordinary Country
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-11-16T20:00:09+01:00

Documentary | 53 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 53 minuten

Country: Poland

Directed by: Tomasz Wolski

IMDb score: 5,5 (38)

Releasedate: 17 April 2020

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An Ordinary Country plot

The term 'surveillance society' is new and is used to indicate the ubiquity of surveillance cameras and facial recognition software. The term certainly also applies to Poland from the 1960s until the end of communism in 1989. The secret police during those years made hundreds of thousands of hours of film and audio recordings, often with hidden equipment. Citizens were monitored if they illegally resold petrol, called relatives abroad to request them to send foreign currency, or if they had a romantic rendezvous at a hotel.