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The Helsinki Effect
In cooperation with CERCLE DIPLOMATIQUE and OSCE, Welcome: H.E. Vesa Häkkinen (Chairperson of the OSCE Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Finland to the OSCE)
The internationally critically acclaimed documentary film by Arthur Franck takes a fascinating look at the historic CSCE negotiations in Helsinki in 1975. The film is made exclusively from archive material and is narrated by actor BJARNE MÄDEL. With an almost satirical arrangement of AI-generated soundtracks of former secret documents, he brings the political actors of the time to life in a way that is as bizarre as it is authentic. While the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev was pushing for recognition of the borders of the Eastern Bloc after the Second World War, Western Europe and the USA under Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger were fighting for democracy and human rights. After tough negotiations, 35 heads of state finally agreed on a compromise.
For a long time, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe was seen as an endless diplomatic battle without meaning - in retrospect, it changed the world, laid the foundations for the end of the Iron Curtain and heralded the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
For a long time, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe was seen as an endless diplomatic battle without meaning - in retrospect, it changed the world, laid the foundations for the end of the Iron Curtain and ushered in the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
THE HELSINKI EFFECT celebrates diplomacy as the art of bringing nations together and agreeing on mutually beneficial principles. It celebrates the importance of dialog as a prerequisite to finding solutions for coexistence: The leaders of the superpowers 50 years ago were bitterly opposed to each other, but they still talked to each other. Today more than ever, the film has great contemporary relevance.
"The Helsinki Effect - is a rare bird. A funny, entertaining and insightful movie about why the world ends up looking the way it does. And one that takes history seriously enough to recognize its curious footnotes."
CPH:DOX
“Fascinating, relevant and exciting.”
Business Doc Europe