Memorial Sites III
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German Autobahnen - ARD-SWR (Germany)
Especially for the Germans themselves, the German highway is more than just a system of roads. Back in the 30’s, as the National Socialists pressed ahead with the construction, the Autobahn also served as a propaganda vehicle making it into an unassailable symbol of progress and economic growth. Decades later, as the economic miracle gained momentum, the network went on growing and growing… Today, despite chronic traffic congestion, there has been a conspicuous absence of serious alternative ideas on the topic of infrastructure. The autobahn myth lives on - unchallenged.
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Duisburg Harbour - ARD-WDR (Germany)
More than 200 years ago, the first storage facilities along the harbour walls were built in Duisburg, on the Rhine river in the middle of Germany. It soon became a place of priority for trading, as the Rhine connects central Europe with the North and Baltic Seas. Duisburg worked with barge crews, providing foodstuffs and offering sailors pastoral care, orphanages, pubs and a shipping stock exchange… Then came the age of coal and steel… And then the age of container traffic with roll-on/roll-off structures… But because of the harbour’s modern technology , skippers today spend only a few hours in the harbour. The days of busy harbour life in the old shipping town are long gone.
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Duisburg Harbour
Oresund Bridge - DR (Denmark)
16 km long, more than €3,4 billion worth : the Øresund Bridge, linking Denmark and Sweden, is the most important bridge of its kind in the world. Resulting from both industrial and political will, it was inaugurated on July 1, 2000 and soon became a symbol : it not only established a permanent link between Scandinavia and continental Europe, but also created a new European “Region”, made out of parts of two countries.
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Canal of Corinth - ERT (Greece)
It took more than 2000 years to make an old Greek dream come true : sailing from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean Sea, as the Isthmus of Corinth was just a pile of stones. When the Canal was completed in 1893, it was not only a brilliant feat of mechanics of the 19th century, but also an inspiration for the future. Although it suffered several destructions and remained closed for long periods, it managed to see unharmed the 21st century and still makes travel between both seas an exciting and inspiring one.
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Canal of Corinth
Hotel New York - Teleac/Not (Netherlands)
At one time, Hotel New York in Rotterdam was the head office of the Holland-America Line. It saw hundreds of thousands of people from all over Europe sail away to a new future in the New World. Over the past few decades, however, all harbour activities were moved away and left it derelict.... Until it was rediscovered and renovated as an integral part of the new centre of modern Rotterdam. The former head office still stands, now as Hotel New York, one of the most pleasant places to stay and relax.
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Hanneke van Ravenswaay (TELEAC)
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Hotel New York
Wroclaw - TVP (Poland)
On the night of 15 to 16 February 1945, the Soviets surrounded the city of Wroclaw, capital of Lower Silesia, in Poland. Fierce fighting began, lasting nearly 3 months… Wroclaw, sometimes referred to as “little Stalingrad” was soon completely destroyed. As the future seemed very uncertain for a long time, the reconstruction lasted for years. But today, Wroclaw stands again.
Director
Marcin Bradke
Producer
Sylwia Mehlis-Gorzkowicz
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Wroclaw
Vilarinho das Furnas - RTP (Portugal)
In the first decades after World Ward II, the necessity of improving the production of electricity led to the building of dams in the North of Portugal. One of them was erected in the Amarela mountains, in the National Park of Gerês; it transformed a poor and remote region, but t also put an end to one of the last communal villages of Portugal – Vilarinho das Furnas. The film tells the tragic story of this submersed village which had been already the theme of documentary films back in the seventies.
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Bosphorus Bridge - TRT (Turkey)
There is only one bridge in the world that connects two continents : it was officially opened in Istanbul, in 1973. The everlasting dream of connecting Asia and Europe over the Bosphorus had finally came true. And it would be a hard task to find another bridge on our planet with such an impact on the daily life on both banks of the river crossing a city....
Director
Özlem ÖGÜT
Producer
Nilgün AYDOGAN
Rabia DILEK
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Bosphorus Bridge
Ice Hotel - UR (Sweden)
In December 2005 the 15th "edition" of the Ice Hotel was built on the bank of Torne River, Jukkasjärvi, a small village in Lapland, Sweden, 200 km north of the Polar Circle.
When Yngve Bergqvist, founder of the Ice Hotel, once came to Jukkasjärvi, he got the idea to let people, who had never experienced snow, come and sleep in a hotel, where the temperature is no more than 5 degrees below zero. What started as a small house of snow, meant as an art exhibition, is now a gigantic construction of 4000 m2., with 60 rooms and suites, an icebar and an ice church. Tens of thousands of tourists, most of them from abroad, visit the hotel yearly…
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Ice Hotel
Type Planned Houses - YLE (Finland)
The simple, wooden, one-family house has become a symbol of the post-war reconstruction era in Finland. It was a key factor in solving the huge housing shortage after the war, as the government felt the fastest and most effective way to link evacuees and soldiers to society was to settle them on farms of their own… Type-planned houses, designed by the best architects in the country were built with volunteers, the whole family participating in the work. Nowadays, the younger inhabitants are remodelling their houses to meet modern requirements.
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