Comrades & Cash: How Money Found Its Way Through the Iron Curtain (2018) (EN subs) 720p.10bit.BluRay.x265-budgetbits

Comrades & Cash - How Money Found Its Way Through the Iron Curtain (2018) (EN subs) 720p.10bit.BluRay.x265-budgetbits
Comrades & Cash: How Money Found Its Way Through the Iron Curtain
Original title: Comrades & Cash: Geheime Geschäfte unter dem Eisernen Vorhang

Deutschland fandom page - Link

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GENERAL INFO

Genre
Documentary, Crime

Languages
German. Also Russian & English interviewees but it is overdubbed in German.

Plot
To accompany the Amazon Prime Video release of Deutschland 86, a documentary entitled "Comrades and Cash" was produced.

Narrated by Jonas Nay, it describes various business activities undertaken by the East German state to earn hard currency, including: the sale of arms by the East German state to the apartheid government of South Africa, their notional enemies; smuggling arms to both sides in the Iran-Iraq war; forced labor in prisons; appropriating antiques and safe-deposit-box contents from its citizens and selling them abroad; selling blood abroad without testing it for HIV.


Encoding info
Encoded from Blu-ray (DEUTSCHLAND86), with HandBrake 1.2.2: HEVC x265 10 bit slower preset, CRF 27, 720p, aq-mode 1, sao/strong-intra-smoothing/rect disabled.

Subtitles from Deutschland.86.S02E11.Comrades.and.Cash.Geheime.Geschafte.unter.dem.Eisernen.Vorhang.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264-AJP69.srt, shifted -10.6 seconds, default, soft

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SCREENSHOTS
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MEDIAINFO
General
Filename = Comrades & Cash - How Money Found Its Way Through the Iron Curtain (2018) (EN subs) 720p.10bit.BluRay.x265-budgetbits.mkv
Duration = 1 h 19 min
Size = 410 MiB
Overall bit rate = 720 kb/s

Video #0
Format = HEVC x265 - 2.9:[Linux][GCC 8.2.0][64 bit] 10bit
Resolution = 1280x720
Aspect ratio = 16:9 (1.778)
Bit rate = 640 kb/s
Frame rate = 25.000 FPS

Audio #0
Title = Stereo
Format = Opus
Channels = 2 channels
Bit rate = 74.7 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English

Subtitles = UTF-8 English