Under Moscow

General Information

Original Title
Onder Moskou
Author/Creator
de Boer, Leo, director
Language
Russian.
Subtitles
English
Published
Netherlands : 2002.
Physical Description
DVD-ROM (55 mins.)
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_10000879

Contents/Summary

Summary
The Moscow subway is an enormous complex of richly decorated arcades, subterranean palaces with mural paintings representing the Communist ideal. They are a feat of Stalin, who had the subway built in the 1930s as a showpiece of his empire. Director Leo de Boer roamed this Moscow underworld for a few weeks and met one of the workers who helped construct the subway at the time. It was the era of duty, comradeship and a solid belief in the strength of the collective. Nowadays, many Russians are penniless, the subway is facing attacks and the materials need replacing. Still, there are people who believe in an ideal: the ‘diggers’, a group of men who, at the risk of their lives, descend into the network of corridors below the subway and disclose a world that nobody knows about.

Subjects

Genre
Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Title Translation
Under Moscow

Holdings

Item Type Current Location Call Number Status Shelving Location Public Note
DVD-ROMOSA Film LibraryFL Record 5385Available-
Digital filmOSA Film LibraryFL Record 5385
(HU_OSA_10000879.mp4)
AvailableAccess Copy, MP4 format