S2.E10 ∙ Tessin

The story of Italian immigration to Canada, looking at the lives of five people who disembarked from a transatlantic ship at Pier 21 in Halifax more than fifty years ago.

A "road movie" about the French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) who walks from Naples to Rome in 1831. In the company of two Swedish officers, he experiences beautiful views, gets fleas, drinks sour wine and dances the night away. The program is based on Berlioz's symphony "Harold in Italy", his memoirs and Carl Stephan Bennett's travel diary. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Manfred Honeck.

The documentary Goli otok presents the history of the concentration camp built on an island at the Croatian northern seashore bearing the same name, during the clashes between Tito and Stalin from 1949 to 1955. The reconstruction of life at the camp and of the methods of political re-building is based on the testimonies of the former prisoner Alfred Pal, while the words of the former general of the Yugoslavian secret political police Jovo Kapicic reveal the establishment's view on the logic's and the motives that led to the creation of the Camp. This documentary also reveals more than a few non-published documents of the Yugoslav secret services shedding new light on the consequences of the Tito-Stalin skirmish that spelled doom for the condemned enemies of the state Stalin's allies.

Beto a beekeeper is the guide in this poetic documentary on a Western Sierra Madre village in Mexico: where elders tend to animals while youth are in school, some of them rehearsing for a production of Romeo and Juliet.

Caroline Cram (Marian Seldes) finds herself in an analyst's office awkwardly and hesitantly groping for the truth about her hopelessness, fears, loneliness, and anxieties.