Challenge of Change: Portraits from Eastern Europe

Documenty addressing the question of political change in Eastern Europe and it's effect on ordinary people.

• Categories: News & Features / Features
• Video Length: 00:52:28
• Production Date: 7 April 1992
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - UNDP; UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: ECONOMICS; FAMILY; POLITICAL EVENTS
• Geographic Subject: EASTERN EUROPE; POLAND; ALBANIA; CZECHOSLOVAKIA
• MAMS Id: 2014167
• Parent Id: 836851

Description

What is it like to live in Eastern Europe in these times of profound change? What have the people gained? What have they lost? And how can the United Nations help? This film addresses these questions through the daily lives of ordinary people. A professor of economics returns to Poland after a 20-year absence to teach business people how to assess the value of Polish industries as they are opened up for foreign investment. In Albania, a newly married couple struggle to make ends meet, but they are determined to stay in their country as they see friends and relatives try to emigrate. In Czechoslovakia, two entrepreneurs – one from the private sector and the other from the State sector – are helped by the UN to expand their businesses.