Balkan Hotch Potch (1940)

Titles read: “BALKAN HOTCH POTCH“. Border of Hungary and Polish / Russian Ukraine. Pictures ’smuggled out of the Balkans’ show guards patrolling the border posts between Hungary and what was the Polish Ukraine (Russian at time of this film). Lyrical shots of countryside & village life. Villagers in traditional dress seen going to church and chatting outside. Various shots of the village of Tesco (?) on the Hungarian / Rumanian border that caused a diplomatic incident in 1939, including bullet holes on cottage walls. Good scenic shots of poor Balkan village. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), B