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When a City Falls
Film (Trailer and Excerpts) – 2011
Gerard Smyth's acclaimed documentary about the Christchurch earthquakes is the story of people coping — for better or worse — with the huge physical and emotional toll that the quakes, and continuing aftershocks, inflicted on them, their homes and their city. It began as a home movie while the devastation of September was surveyed (with thanks given that no-one had been killed); but, as shooting of the recovery continued, the February quake compounded the destruction and claimed 182 lives (including their researcher and 16 colleagues at CTV).
I think they're gonna be adrenalin junkies.– Expectant mother to be (of twins), interviewed in the film
Key Cast & Crew
See all 19 credits
Acknowledgements
Funding from the NZ Film Commission and NZ On Air
Music
Closing credits track 'Rise and Fall', by Nadia Reid (from the album Letters I Wrote and Never Sent)
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