Archive producer

Christin Köppen

Production company

DRIVE beta

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About This Project

The Eurovision Song Contest is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. With around 160 million viewers, the ESC is now one of the world’s biggest music spectacles. The documentary looks back on seven decades of music, emotion and passion. From its beginnings as a singing competition in 1956, through flamboyant outfits and spectacular performances, to unforgettable victories, bitter defeats and the political debates of the recent past: Stars such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Hape Kerkeling, Tom Neuwirth (alias Conchita Wurst) and the first German ESC winner, Nicole, recount their experiences on and off stage. The documentary paints a multifaceted portrait of the ESC, highlighting its formative influence on music, fashion and society, as well as on the LGBTQIA+ community, thus becoming a vivid journey through seven decades of European pop culture history.

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