How was television im the eastern Block?

Op here ive heard about a polish show about 4 guys and a dog that crewed a t-35-85 anybody know What is called?

old TV narration was fucking poetry

4 Tankers and a Dog
good show

yes, but, a je to is fucking legendary

>polish show about 4 guys and a dog that crewed a t-35-85 anybody know What is called?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czterej_pancerni_i_pies

nostalgia bomb coming right up
youtube.com/watch?v=0ZUGyqgk1sc

4 minutes in is where the average life starts btw

Thx for helping with my mental retardation

There was a famous Tom&Jerry counterpart that was quite famous. I think its name was "Well ,just you wait".

we also had news!

youtube.com/watch?v=IgdqsZfi9BY

1:30

"Umro je Drug Tito"

"Tito has died"
Drug - translates into 'friend' but it was more formal than that when applied to Tito.

Nu pogodi!
wolf and bunny
some people get weird boners because bunny is a guy, but is pretty fucking feminine

such an aesthetic with 80's stop motion!

...

its not the aestethics, its hillarious slapstik even for adults

nenadjebivo

>being attracted to a cartoon rabbit is okay as long as it's a female

youtube.com/watch?v=Negzb730PKw
Mézga family, Hungarian cartoon. It's like the Simpsons but 20 years before the Simpsons became a thing.

i mean they just demolish everithing, but it works out in the end, they just kind of reconceptualise the thing

youtube.com/watch?v=lQ7SeHjEhs4

In the DDR, most of the people could recieve West G. television, so to compete, they copied many types of the FGR's shows (which in turn were copied from the Americans/British/French). They had some famous variety shows, as well as a Tatort rip-off (a very popular weekly detective show thats been running for almost half a century), called Polizeiruf 110, a propaganda channel (schwarzer kanal) and of course the very popular Sandmännchen children's programme.

was a there a political reason for ditching stahlhelm and making those abhorrent eggshells?

Those "eggshels" were still stahlhelm and were in fact designed by Nazi Germany.

I know, but I also know that they were designed around 42 and never fielded with the army, until DDR was a thing
now answer the question

I'm the one you asked not yes there was also political reasoning behind it. They thought the Bundeswehr would adopt the Stahlhelm design (they didn't) and wanted something that looked different enough, also appeasment of the other pact-members

Who were the stereotypical villains in action movies? It's hard for me to imagine some Soviet-John McClane gunning down hordes of evil capitalist bankers.

There were many shows for kids. It's all dead now.

Poland here. Action films like that weren't really produced. Comedies, historical films, costume dramas were the most popular.

During the socialist realism (until 1956) the most common villains were kulaks or western spies.

I hardly speak for entire eastern block, but the types of movies you are thinking of pretty much didn't exist.
The most violent action you would get were war movies and even those had almost none compared to shit like Schwarzenegger, Willis, Stallone etc. , being more social commentaries than Michael Bay explosionfests.

Were there any particular political reasons you can think of for why action films of that like weren't produced? Or was it simply due to cultural differences between east and west?

It was definitely cultural.

My Russian professor in college always said that Americans and westerners in general were portrayed more as misguided or immoral rather than blatantly evil.

Action films are a staple of hollywood, French and W. German (I'm sure the others as well) also are more social commentaries. That's why American films are so popular worldwide, it has a low common denomenator, the same kind of kitsch romance plots as in the cheap films of other countries and an addition of mindless violence

This is pretty interesting, thanks anons. Wonder what the reasons are for action movies becoming so popular in the US

youtube.com/watch?v=AJ66SC942Pc

>TV series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss (real name, Stanisław Kolicki, codename J-23), who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.

youtube.com/watch?v=F2lo8fsAOB4

>TV series about the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army.

youtube.com/watch?v=5gQNNG35pA0

TV series loosely based on the life of a famous Slovak Juraj Jánošík.

Polish action heroes.

we didnt have action films realy, exept the occasional new wavy social comentary violent drama sort of thing, but we had a completely other genre that replaced all that and then some, partisan movies and resistance series and all that ww2 crap, guerillas, smuglers, brave young resistance fighters, urban chase scenes and firefights, spies, counterspies, gestapo, nazis, fascists of every kind, torture scenes, massive battles where axis fighters fall like flies etc etc... oh and yea its all historicaly accurate

also spageti westerns were considered politicaly correct enough to be allowed so they were immensly popular

also there was that one series on the pesant uprisings back in the 1500eds, like a leftist medieval epic miniseries thing

This shit is still shown in The Netherlands, I grew up with it as well but we call them Buurman & Buurman (Neighbour and Neighbour) and voiced the characters(with their legendary quote:'as the czechs say; a je to!')

They made pretty good children's shows

Don't know if it's your thing, but The Decalogue is widely considered to be one of the finest television shows ever made.

'Drug' in that context translates to 'comrade'

Yugo here. Nazis. Always Nazis. The vast majority of action movies in Yugoslavia were set in WWII.

Escapist media like science fiction, fantasy, animated movies and comedies were really good, although criticism of the regime had to be very low-key unless you wanted your movie to be thrown into a safe and be rediscovered after 1989. News not so much, it was a mix between good news from the eastern bloc, anti-american smear jobs and seasonal achievements of the proletariat. Also it depends in which stage and what country. For example in Czechoslovakia, during the sixties when certain liberties were rediscovered and culture censorship was much more lenient to the point of non-existence a lot of globally appraised movies were created, if you are interested in that period of filmmaking look for movies made in the, and I'm using the term very liberally, school of Czechoslovak New Wave. I would imagine USSR in the fifties was something else...

The Kiowa tribesmen.

youtube.com/watch?v=gIXmAhoERjo

Here are some old commercials from Yugoslavia in the 80s.
This. Yugoslavia actually invented an entire sub-genre of action movies

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partisan_film

Pretty boring overall and with few channells avaiaible, but also practically no ads and a lot of content produced specifically for TV (animation, TV dramas) was of outstanding quality

Too bad Branko is an alcoholic

TFW you will never settle in to your comfy commie bloc apartment for a grand afternoon watching a chess tournament.

youtube.com/watch?v=ziOtv-Amoqk

Here is some cult Russian TV classics
youtube.com/watch?v=WZhgXs_iFRs&list=PLHiAMOiVIvsD2u8g0RLwvdRScEe9yiUr5
17 moments of spring - famous Russian spy series
youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ubDkZqVLk&list=PL3RYZO9qYh_zJ28HDgdKSDCpMaOUHS_Or
the meeting place cannot be changed - cukt detective series
youtube.com/watch?v=yhujgY6m0RQ&list=PLJZJyA9_6SgDXuUIOT3VQE-I0rA0PalGO
Russian version of SHerlock Holmes

Romanian here.
we had 2 hours of tv every day.
1 of it was just Ceausescu talking. And some cartoons on Sunday.
Occasionally the movies in the cinema would be played as reruns on tv.
I'll post some different genre's as an example:

why so many of these actually good things died out?
like fuck whoever thought disbanding young pioneers was a good idea

Pioneers were just a way to get out of your parent's apartment to hang out with kids of the opposite sex. It wasn't necessary once communism collapsed and you could just do that in shopping malls, or while sniffing glue in sewers or abandoned subway stations.

Commissar Moldovan -1920's gangster type movies where the honest communist commissar would crack down on capitalist gangsters:
youtube.com/watch?v=egg5_OfVI5Q
youtube.com/watch?v=sa0H59oEXK8
^this is an iconic scene for old romanians since he dies and it's the last movie in the series

What's the relationship to the new series "Comrade Detective"?

>Pioneers were just a way to get out of your parent's apartment to hang out with kids of the opposite sex
yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about

Some intros to popular Soviet TV shows

youtube.com/watch?v=ICtBHp78rPw

>TFW you will never have your first sexual experience at the hands of a mature and liberated East German female steel worker vacationing at a nudist camp at Lake Balaton.

Interesting, thanks for this

In Yugo there was a popular TV show called Otpisani ("Written off) about a bunch of undercover partisans going full Rambo on Nazis. Kinda kitschy like most of the stuff from the '70s but it was fun to watch nonetheless

youtube.com/watch?v=vrIFEj0FCHw

youtube.com/watch?v=lsXU5Wb_tkw
This is late 90s stuff.

the bread an butter where the historical movies since Ceausescu wanted to emphasise the Dacian/latin roots to counter the pan-slavic fuckery the Russians kept pushing for assimilation.
> my personal favourite "The Immortals" - Magnificent Seven type movie about remaining soldiers loyal to the now deceased Mihai the Brave, the first Voievod who united the 3 Romanian kingdoms
youtube.com/watch?v=_buElKfJLyY

> The movies about the most well known romanian kings :
1. Vlad the Impaler youtube.com/watch?v=GCGeje5ut3w
2. Stefan the Great youtube.com/watch?v=OIwP0GOkP6U
3. Mihai the Brave youtube.com/watch?v=7LKpLrdfmGI
4. Mircea the Elder(named like this because he was one of the few Romanian kings who died of old age at 80 y o, most of them died in battle or by assassination)youtube.com/watch?v=aKRWTJ_TB24

youtube.com/watch?v=aKRWTJ_TB24

From late sixties to late seventies we had God tier films

Western movies set in the same time period but in Romania.
Wasn't very hard as there are still some savage parts to this day
> full playlist here:
youtube.com/watch?v=kfWEEOaE9Z4&list=PLctD-X3ZisW57KeFj-s_21vWDPy8l9THY

Nice one. Thanks from Finland.

Mafiosi and Nazis
Nothing but mafiosi and nazis

and finally a buddy cop/incompetent gangsters comedy series

youtube.com/watch?v=M_3ZAIOMCwY
youtube.com/watch?v=CgLsJwmG6EM

>The Immortals
I found it with English subtitles.
youtube.com/watch?v=abgx8bgZkRg

Thanks, some of them have EN subtitles but not all of them.

There's obviously more of them with some hidden gem here and there but these are the 3 types that stuck in pop culture over the years.
None that i know of.

Yugo A-Team ?
Was every team member from a separate country ?

thanks mate, appreciate it, it's really one of their best works

i heard a synth version of this in death of yugoslavia part 2

This was solely a Serbian production, and i believe most of the actors were Serbs. At least those playing main characters.

Here's a TV show from approximately the same period (70s) and on the same subject (WW2 and Nazis), but from Croatian production.

youtube.com/watch?v=8hiBa69gAak

If in doubt, it has something to do with the Eternal Kraut, and his fascination with manpower effectivity.

There were some pretty famous Russian osterns / re westerns mainly set in Central Asia and Far East

Most famousl is White Sun of the Desert
youtube.com/watch?v=GqnqFhc9aho

Another famous examples
At Home Among Strangers
youtube.com/watch?v=tcifkZWR1cA

The Elusive Avengers
youtube.com/watch?v=3V0g1gM2P6o

Romanian guy here, thanks for sharing, i always thought the russian expansion into the east could be a potential movie gold mine.

sopot festival was the shit
youtube.com/watch?v=y5Fq18SWGwQ

youtube.com/watch?v=x-qq107mI2I

>Germans using repainted Pattons, Shermans and T34s
I love these movies because they're both so hilarous and serious at the same time, they just don't make stuff like this anymore

No way is that a guy wtf

youtube.com/watch?v=u2oHyRb9hCg

>Communism is an ideology of peace!!

youtu.be/5WpYWpN0VXU

Isn't Bolek and Loli Polish tho?