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1993 film
89mm from Europe
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Directed by
| Marcel Łozi?ski
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Written by
| Marcel Łozi?ski
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Cinematography
| Jacek Petrycki
Arthur Reinhart
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Edited by
| Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk
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Production
company
| Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop
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Distributed by
| Telewizja Polska
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Release date
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Running time
| 12 minutes
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Country
| Poland
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Language
| Russian
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89mm from Europe
(
Polish
:
89 mm od Europy
) is a 1993 Polish
short
documentary film
directed by
Marcel Łozi?ski
,
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looking at the 89 mm difference in
track gauge
between Russian and European railroads after the
Cold War
.
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It was nominated for an
Academy Award
for
Best Documentary Short
.
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Plot
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The film shows the fundamental differences between
Western
and
Eastern Europe
even after the end of the Cold War, based on one detail: the width of the railroad tracks. 89 mm from
Europe
shows the efforts of Belarusian workers who collectively replace the wheels of trains passing through the former
Soviet Union
on the Polish-Belarusian border near
Brest
. The title 89 mm is the difference between the track gauge in Europe (1435 mm) and in the former
USSR
(1524 mm),
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with a historical explanation dating back to the 19th century; a different gauge was to prevent German military trains from quickly penetrating the borders of
Tsarist Russia
.
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Awards
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89 mm from Europe was the first film by Łozi?ski in which he really reached an international audience after the fall of the
Eastern Bloc
. The documentary was nominated for an
Oscar
for the best short documentary and for the
European Film Awards
for the best documentary, it also won the Grand Prix of the
Montreal Film Festival
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Accolades
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References
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