THE SPIRIT OF 45

Recently released on British and Irish cinemas The Spirit o 45 recounts the hopes, fears and the mood of the people who lived the creation and evolution of the Welfare State, exploring its impact on the post war society and its influence on modern generations via interviews with people who lived it
Directed by one of Britain`s most famous film directors: Ken Loach.
To see the web page visit:
www.thespiritof45.com/

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THE AMERICANS

Released in September in Spain and with a second season premiering in January 2014 in the USA. The Americans tells the story of a KGB couple named Philip and Elizabeth who are  undercover KGB officials who live in America with two sons in the early 1980`s. They do their job as usual until one day when the American authorities began to suspect of them when an FBI counter- intelligence agent moves to their neighbourhood.

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OPERATION GOMORRAH: WHEN GERMANY BEGAN TO BURN

This year Hamburg celebrates the 70 anniversary of Operation Gomorrah which was the savage night bombing of Hamburg by the RAF during the summer of 1943.
Now the German town has decided to open a museum  to explore the effects  of this bombing and other major bombings such as the one which the town  Dresde suffered in February 1945.
According to Malte Thieben the aim of the museum is to:
"Try and recover the memory of what was the air war"
In order to do this the exposition recreates the smell of burning corpses and the sound of the bombs falling on the ground.
The museum is located on the Tower of Saint Nicholas. the location of the museum is of great importance as it was the highest tower in the town and the one which  British pilots used to guide themselves in order to drop their deadly charge.

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