Focusing on films from the former Soviet Union, the former German Democratic Republic, and the former socialist republics of Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria.this program takes an all singing, all dancing peek behind the Iron Curtain at the "politics of entertainment." You" ll see lots of colorful clips from films never before seen in the West including singing pig farmers, dancing sailors. socialist summer vacations, the Cinderella factory girl, a backstage musical and, of course, the obligatory singing tractor drivers. Additional background provided by newsreels, commercials, quotes from censorship and press files, and appearances by the people responsible.