作为一个电影营销标签，“柏林学派”逐渐开始获得世界性关注。佩措尔德、阿斯兰和夏娜莱克也通过电影节蜚声国际。纪录片通过分析这些导演发展与接收过程中的重要作品，试图展现和分析这些不同导演的风格和主题中的共性。2016年，柏林学派的摇篮，德国电视电影学院（dffb）迎来了成立50周年庆典，这也是这部记录片诞生的最重要的原因。 　　The „Berlin School“ has been a cinematic trademark for years now, gaining attention from all around the globe. Directors such as Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan and Angela Schanelec have been screening their movies at the most prestigious film festivals there are. Both international critiques and lovers of arthouse cinema meet the movies with great enthusiasm. The documentary is going to try to show and analyze the similarities in the different directors’ styles and subjects, including important landmarks in their evolution and reception. In 2016, the birth cradle of the “Berlin School”, the German Film and TV Academy Berlin (DFFB) is going to celebrate it’s 50 years of existence – a most important reason to finally acknowledge this relevant contemporary cinematic style with a documentary.

作为一个电影营销标签，“柏林学派”逐渐开始获得世界性关注。佩措尔德、阿斯兰和夏娜莱克也通过电影节蜚声国际。纪录片通过分析这些导演发展与接收过程中的重要作品，试图展现和分析这些不同导演的风格和主题中的共性。2016年，柏林学派的摇篮，德国电视电影学院（dffb）迎来了成立50周年庆典，这也是这部记录片诞生的最重要的原因。 　　The „Berlin School“ has been a cinematic trademark for years now, gaining attention from all around the globe. Directors such as Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan and Angela Schanelec have been screening their movies at the most prestigious film festivals there are. Both international critiques and lovers of arthouse cinema meet the movies with great enthusiasm. The documentary is going to try to show and analyze the similarities in the different directors’ styles and subjects, including important landmarks in their evolution and reception. In 2016, the birth cradle of the “Berlin School”, the German Film and TV Academy Berlin (DFFB) is going to celebrate it’s 50 years of existence – a most important reason to finally acknowledge this relevant contemporary cinematic style with a documentary.

Michael Palin explores the countries that were, for much of his life, hidden behind the Iron Curtain, and now are very much part of the New Europe of post-Soviet times. 　　1 - War and Peace 　　Countries visited: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Albania 　　In Medjugoree Michael encounters a visionary who first started having visitations from the Virgin Mary 25 years ago. In Dubrovnik he meets with lute maestro Edin Karamazov who made the recent 'Songs from the Labyrinth' album with Sting. Michael ends this visit with a sheep sacrifice which heralds an afternoon of music and hospitality typically Balkan. 　　2 - Eastern Delight 　　Countries visited: Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey 　　Michael makes a remarkable visit to Göreme, where the rocks have been carved to form homes and some of the most remarkable churches of the early Christian era. Leaving the Cappodocia region by balloon, he sails east towards the borders of the New Europe, which if Turkey were to join the European Union would include Iran, Iraq and Syria. 　　3 - Wild East 　　Countries visited: Trans-Dniester, Romania 　　Michael travels from Transdniester, a breakaway state from the Republic of Moldova, to the Vaser Valley in Romania, where he joins 80 lumberjacks as they board a wood-fired steam train. He finally ends up at Bran Castle in Transylvania, the ancestral home of Vlad the Impaler and alleged home of Bram Stoker's Dracula. 　　4 - Danube to Dnieper 　　Countries visited: Hungary, Ukraine 　　Michael travels by road, rail and river through Hungary and the Ukraine, ending in the Black Sea resort of Yalta. Along the way he visits Budapest's 'House of Terror', a National Park in Hortobagy, an area which Attila the Hun was reputed to have rampaged across, and ends up meeting a Leeds market trader who married the Ukranian prime minister's daughter. 　　5 - Baltic Summer 　　Countries visited: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia 　　Michael travels from Tallinn in the north, through Latvia, to Lithuania in the south, sailing into the Baltic from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, formerly East Prussia. In Estonia he visits a pyramid house and samples the medicinal properties of leeches. In Latvia he visits one of the most secretive places of the Communist-era, the astronomical telescope. 　　6 - From Pole to Pole 　　Country visited: Poland 　　Arriving in Gdansk via canal, Michael meets former electrician Lech Walesa who formed 'Solidarity', Poland's first independent trade union, which led to the demise of communism in that country. Heading to Warsaw he visits the Palace of Culture, Stalin's controversial gift to Varsovians. Michael then makes his own personal pilgrimage to Auschwitz. 　　7 - Journey's End 　　Countries visited: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany 　　High in the Tatra mountains of Slovakia, Michael skins a pig, and learns how to make sausages. He then departs to Brno to visit Tibor Turba's famous mime school, where he is asked to mime a cockerel. Travelling in a DC3, used during the Berlin airlift, he visits the island of Rugen, built by Hitler for his KDF ('Strength through Joy') programme.

Michael Palin explores the countries that were, for much of his life, hidden behind the Iron Curtain, and now are very much part of the New Europe of post-Soviet times. 　　1 - War and Peace 　　Countries visited: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Albania 　　In Medjugoree Michael encounters a visionary who first started having visitations from the Virgin Mary 25 years ago. In Dubrovnik he meets with lute maestro Edin Karamazov who made the recent 'Songs from the Labyrinth' album with Sting. Michael ends this visit with a sheep sacrifice which heralds an afternoon of music and hospitality typically Balkan. 　　2 - Eastern Delight 　　Countries visited: Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey 　　Michael makes a remarkable visit to Göreme, where the rocks have been carved to form homes and some of the most remarkable churches of the early Christian era. Leaving the Cappodocia region by balloon, he sails east towards the borders of the New Europe, which if Turkey were to join the European Union would include Iran, Iraq and Syria. 　　3 - Wild East 　　Countries visited: Trans-Dniester, Romania 　　Michael travels from Transdniester, a breakaway state from the Republic of Moldova, to the Vaser Valley in Romania, where he joins 80 lumberjacks as they board a wood-fired steam train. He finally ends up at Bran Castle in Transylvania, the ancestral home of Vlad the Impaler and alleged home of Bram Stoker's Dracula. 　　4 - Danube to Dnieper 　　Countries visited: Hungary, Ukraine 　　Michael travels by road, rail and river through Hungary and the Ukraine, ending in the Black Sea resort of Yalta. Along the way he visits Budapest's 'House of Terror', a National Park in Hortobagy, an area which Attila the Hun was reputed to have rampaged across, and ends up meeting a Leeds market trader who married the Ukranian prime minister's daughter. 　　5 - Baltic Summer 　　Countries visited: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia 　　Michael travels from Tallinn in the north, through Latvia, to Lithuania in the south, sailing into the Baltic from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, formerly East Prussia. In Estonia he visits a pyramid house and samples the medicinal properties of leeches. In Latvia he visits one of the most secretive places of the Communist-era, the astronomical telescope. 　　6 - From Pole to Pole 　　Country visited: Poland 　　Arriving in Gdansk via canal, Michael meets former electrician Lech Walesa who formed 'Solidarity', Poland's first independent trade union, which led to the demise of communism in that country. Heading to Warsaw he visits the Palace of Culture, Stalin's controversial gift to Varsovians. Michael then makes his own personal pilgrimage to Auschwitz. 　　7 - Journey's End 　　Countries visited: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany 　　High in the Tatra mountains of Slovakia, Michael skins a pig, and learns how to make sausages. He then departs to Brno to visit Tibor Turba's famous mime school, where he is asked to mime a cockerel. Travelling in a DC3, used during the Berlin airlift, he visits the island of Rugen, built by Hitler for his KDF ('Strength through Joy') programme.