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The Helsinki Effect (2025)
88 min | Documentary

The Helsinki Effect (2025)

88 min | Documentary

Signed on August 1, 1975, in Helsinki, the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. We take a closer look at this diplomatic summit and its major consequences.

Director

Arthur Franck

Writer

Arthur Franck

Producers

Anja Dziersk (producer) | Sandra Enkvist (producer) | Oskar Forstén (producer) | Arthur Franck (producer) & 2 more

Composers

Patrik Andrén (composer) | Uno Helmersson (composer)

Editor

Markus Leppälä (editor)

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Edit Released

Updated Apr 11, 2025

Release date

Oct 18, 2025 (United States)

Awards

3 nominations

Contacts

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Cast	+ Add Cast
46 cast members

Name	Known for
Yuri Andropov Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Guest from the Island of Freedom (1963)
Carlos Arias Navarro Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Imágenes prohibidas (1994)
Gian Luigi Berti Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Trygve Bratteli Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Stortinget (1969)
Leonid Brezhnev Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	O Sport, You Are Peace! (1981)
Agostino Casaroli Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Nicolae Ceausescu Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Aktuelle Kamera (1952)
Liam Cosgrave Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Scope (1972)
Süleyman Demirel Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Keske Olmasaydi... (2007)
Joop den Uyl Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	De stratemakeropzeeshow (1972)
Gerald Ford Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Dynasty (1981)
Edward Gierek Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	1974, une partie de campagne (1974)
Francisco da Costa Gomes Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Pierre Graber Self Self See fewer	The Helsinki Effect (2025)
Andrei Gromyko Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Dead Man's Letters (1986)
Geir Hallgrímsson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Harder Than It Looks (1986)
Erich Honecker Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Immer bereit (1950)
Gustav Husák Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Elective Affinities (1968)
Jaakko Iloniemi Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Kolme erää EU:sta (1994)
Anker Jørgensen Self - (archive footage) Self - (archive footage) See fewer	På tisdag vaknar vi upp till framtiden (1973)
János Kádár Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Vremya (1968)
Konstantinos Karamanlis Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Struggle (1975)
Urho Kekkonen Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Kekkonen (2017)
Nikita Khrushchev Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Interview mit Berlin (1959)
Walter Kieber Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Henry Kissinger Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Bruno Kreisky Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Der heiße Draht (1973)
Bjarne Mädel Self - Narrator (voice: German version) Self - Narrator (voice: German version) See fewer	Der Tatortreiniger (2011)
Dom Mintoff Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Aldo Moro Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Aldo Moro Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Übriggebliebene ausgereifte Haltungen (2007)
Michail Mouskos Makarios Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Cameron Country (1968)
Richard Nixon Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Frost/Nixon (2008)
Olof Palme Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
André Saint-Mleux Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Walter Scheel Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Hier und heute (1957)
Helmut Schmidt Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Die RAF (2007)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)
Gaston Thorn Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Questionnaire (1973)
Leo Tindemans Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Tagesschau (1952)
Josip Broz Tito Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Prvi maj 1947 godine (1947)
Pierre Trudeau Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Reason Over Passion (1969)
Lech Walesa Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Prawdziwy koniec zimnej wojny (2011)
Harold Wilson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Royal Family (1969)
Todor Zhivkov Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Vremya (1968)