City Life (1990)

Name: City Life
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017-08-06T12:58:08+02:00
Rating: 3.67

Documentary | 240 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 240 minuten

Country: Netherlands / Argentina

Directed by: Alejandro Agresti, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Dirk Rijneke, Béla Tarr, Mildred Van Leeuwaarden, Carlos Reichenbach, Gábor Altorjay, José Luis Guerín, Clemens Klopfenstein, Tato Kotetshvili, William Mbaye Ousmane, Eagle Pennell and Mrinal Sen

IMDb score: 6,5 (2.668)

Releasedate: 26 January 1990

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City Life plot

Twelve parts about modern life in cities all over the world. Covered: the urban conglomerate in the Netherlands, Tbilisi in the Soviet Republic of Georgia, Sao Paolo in Brazil, Houston in the United States, Warsaw in Poland, Buenos Aires in Argentina, Budapest in Hungary, Hamburg in Germany, Barcelona in Spain, Dakar in Senegal, Bevagna in Italy and Calcutta in India. Each episode lasts approximately 20 minutes. The aim of the film is to give an impression of the rapid changes in modern society. The lighting of the legendary Titanic has been chosen as the connecting principle, but the Tower of Babel also plays an important role with its confusion of tongues.