Palace for the People (2017)

Name: Palace for the People
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-10-20T09:23:26+02:00

Documentary | 104 minutes (miniserie) / 76 minutes (documentaire) (mini series, 4 parts)

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 104 minuten (miniserie) / 76 minuten (documentaire) (mini series, 4 parts)

Alternative titles: Paläste für das Volk / Дворците на народа

Country: Bulgaria / Germany / Romania

Directed by: Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov

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Palace for the People plot

They were meant for the people, the five megalomaniac palaces in Sofia, Moscow, Bucharest, Berlin and Belgrade. But in the end they were built to underline the power of a totalitarian regime, communism in Eastern Europe. They had to be spectacles that the people could marvel at. Big, bigger, biggest, with the latest technical gadgets and the most expensive marble. Kitsch palaces of madness for some, architectural wonders of the world for others. The architects, directors and users in this documentary look back on it with mixed feelings.