Christiania

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Genre: Diversity & Multicultural, Social Issues
Publisher: Soundview Media Partners, LLC
Director: Robert Lawson Richard Jackman
Producers: Robert Lawson Richard Jackman
Duration: 77 minutes
Run Time: 77 minutes
Language: English
Language: English

Christiania

Directed by Robert Lawson
|Produced by Robert Lawson

Genre: Diversity & Multicultural, Social Issues

Video Library Digital

10/25/2016

77 minutes

857326006441LD

Video Retail Digital

10/25/2016

77 minutes

857326006441RD

DVD (Public Performance Rights Included)

10/25/2016

77 minutes

857326006441DP

DVD (Public Performance Rights Included)

10/25/2016

1 DVD

77 minutes

857326006441P

DVD

10/25/2016

1 DVD

77 minutes

857326006441

Description:

Christiania tells the story of a squatter community occupying an abandoned military base in the center of Copenhagen, Denmark. Christiania was born in 1971 when youthful idealism and a severe housing shortage incited hundreds of young people to occupy 85 acres of deserted brick buildings, woods, ramparts and canals as their home. Finding it politically unpopular to evict the young settlers, the Danish government declared Christiania a short-term social experiment. Over forty years later, Christiania is still standing. Through interviews with longtime Christiania residents and police and government officials, Christiania explores consensus democracy, alternative building methods, drug policy and Scandinavian culture in a provocative and often humorous character study of this fascinating community.