1. In a 26-page report on the international scene, former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim said: “The past year has brought new crises and few encouragements . . .

2. The public agitation about the repressed NS past of the Federal Presidential candidate Kurt Waldheim gives ‘Paper Bridge’ an extra twist towards the end: the film changes, if only for a few minutes, from a search for traces that seem to lead to another distant time, into something very contemporary, into a piece of agitprop, for topical reasons; Ruth Beckermann becomes similarly resolute in her dramaturgy fourteen years later in her film ‘homemad(e)’ (2001), where she reacts to a political topicality: the shift to the right in Austria caused by the FPÖ’s participation in the government in February 2000.