When a City Falls

When a City Falls

2011
1h 46m
0.5

0.5/10

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Overview

2010 on the Canterbury Plains and all is well. Lambs, blue skies and daffodils. In Cathedral Square choir boys sing to their God. Punts push new season's tourists along the Avon. They photograph the 'Garden city'; the 'most English city outside of England'. We get hit with a 7.1 earthquake. We stand up, wave our fists at the heavens and compliment ourselves on our ability to recover. And then we get hit even harder. Now the city has fallen. Many are dead. Many injured. Many narrowly escape. A fragile people reappear in the following days. We have learnt from the first earthquake and once again a response is growing. Once again adrenaline is taking over. Now the whole country is rallying for Christchurch. It's the energy of the people that's unprecedented. Communities are rising from the sand. People are holding tight to each other. A year later and the quakes keep rolling. Now the Canterbury earthquakes are the most ever quakes recorded in a series. And we're still counting....

Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Countries
New Zealand
Spoken Languages
English

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Quick Facts

Release Date November 24, 2011
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt2258731
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Cast

Key Crew

Gerard Smyth
Director
Gerard Smyth
Writer
Alice Shannon
Producer
Gerard Smyth
Producer
Paul Swadel
Executive Producer