Roger Mills
Director
Michael Palin's New Europe (2007)
Miniseries
Michael Palin explores European countries that were once behind the Iron Curtain.
Released Sept. 16, 2007
10+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.bosnia-and-herzegovina, tmdb.eastern-europe, tmdb.serbia, tmdb.croatia, tmdb.travel, mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.tv-mini-series + 3 more, tmdb.iron-curtain, tmdb.travel-show, imdb.travel-documentary
Production Companies: Prominent Television
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - War and Peace
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.
Sept. 16, 2007, midnight
S1E2 - Eastern Delight
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.
Sept. 23, 2007, midnight
S1E3 - Wild East
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.
Sept. 30, 2007, midnight
S1E4 - Danube to Dnieper
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 Hunwas reputed to have rampaged across, and ends up meeting a Leeds market trader who married the Ukranian prime minister's daughter.
Oct. 7, 2007, midnight
S1E5 - Baltic Summer
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.
Oct. 14, 2007, midnight
S1E6 - From Pole to Pole
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.
Oct. 21, 2007, midnight
S1E7 - Journey's End
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.
Oct. 28, 2007, midnight
BBC One
Sept. 16, 2007
Oct. 28, 2007, midnight
Ended
TV-PG / 10+
Action
Action
Rate this show
Add {Movie} to static lists