Synopsis
The question that concerns us is this: Is it possible to build a just and secure world for all?
With the end of the Cold War in 1989, we had great hopes for the world. Global politics was uniquely aligned to create a new peace order, peace and reconciliation seemed possible. So what went wrong?
ONE INCH EASTWARD reveals how the US political, military and economic expansion in Europe after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the Russian desire to be an equal partner in the relationship and to find a new place on the international stage both led to decisions and behaviours that created the dangerous world we live in today.
The story is told by following the ups and downs of the very real friendship between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin, through an archaeological dig into the archives. This brings new evidence and understanding of a unique moment of history, one which is very relevant to our present time.
We start with promises of democratic peace and end with the reality of war in Europe and the coming to power of Vladimir Putin. The key achievement, not to be forgotten, is to increase cooperation in nuclear arms reduction, just about continuing to this day. Yeltsin is indispensable for promoting US interests, and Clinton makes enormous efforts to keep him in power, even as he shells the Russian parliament and obliterates Grozny, but by 1999, he resigns, humiliated, with his country in chaos.
The story is told chronologically. We are going to join the dots, creating the narrative from found footage: existing archive material, b-roll, interviews, speeches, overheard conversations, documents.
We use newsreel, intertitles, and cards to provide context. We’ll use graphics for declassified documents that will revel us what happened when the cameras stop.
Irina Maldea has a unique perspective, as a director who grew up under communism and then lived in the west, she is our guide in navigating what historians are now calling “The Lost Peace”
With the end of the Cold War in 1989, we had great hopes for the world. Global politics was uniquely aligned to create a new peace order, peace and reconciliation seemed possible. So what went wrong?
ONE INCH EASTWARD reveals how the US political, military and economic expansion in Europe after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the Russian desire to be an equal partner in the relationship and to find a new place on the international stage both led to decisions and behaviours that created the dangerous world we live in today.
The story is told by following the ups and downs of the very real friendship between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin, through an archaeological dig into the archives. This brings new evidence and understanding of a unique moment of history, one which is very relevant to our present time.
We start with promises of democratic peace and end with the reality of war in Europe and the coming to power of Vladimir Putin. The key achievement, not to be forgotten, is to increase cooperation in nuclear arms reduction, just about continuing to this day. Yeltsin is indispensable for promoting US interests, and Clinton makes enormous efforts to keep him in power, even as he shells the Russian parliament and obliterates Grozny, but by 1999, he resigns, humiliated, with his country in chaos.
The story is told chronologically. We are going to join the dots, creating the narrative from found footage: existing archive material, b-roll, interviews, speeches, overheard conversations, documents.
We use newsreel, intertitles, and cards to provide context. We’ll use graphics for declassified documents that will revel us what happened when the cameras stop.
Irina Maldea has a unique perspective, as a director who grew up under communism and then lived in the west, she is our guide in navigating what historians are now calling “The Lost Peace”
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