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THE MOSCOW SIEGE



Director: Pamela Gordon
Script: Pamela Gordon
Cinematography: Valentin Chernovol
Music: Samuel Sim, Yellow 6
Editing: Gregor Lyon
Sound: Andrei Budylin
Producer: Liana Pomgrantsev
Production company: October Films
Source: Discovery Europe
160 Great Portland Street
London, W1
ENGLAND (UK)
Phone: +44 20 7462 3600
www.octoberfilms.co.uk

October 23, 2002. 922 people came to see the most popular musical in Moscow. The cast and crew were ready for another sell-out show. Forty-two heavily-armed Chechen rebels, approaching in vans, had other plans.

At the start of the second act, the rebels moved in and took the audience and actors hostage. The Chechen War had come to the heart off Moscow. A standoff between Russia's elite troops and Chechnya's elite warriors began, with Russia's cultural elite caught in the crosshairs. Who would survive? A few days later, at least 170 people were dead, many of them because of a mysterious chemical agent unleashed by the Russians.

Using exclusive news footage as well as footage shot by the rebels themselves, THE MOSCOW SIEGE tells the harrowing story hour by hour. This is a vivid anatomy of a horrific stand-off and its tragic aftermath.

Pamela Gordon attended Goldsmiths College in London. She co-founded the Primitive Science theatre company, where she worked for six years. In 1998, she joined October Films, where she has produced and directed documentary series about people living on the edge of society.

filmography as director
THE MOSCOW SIEGE (2003)
DRUGRUNNERS (2003)
WASTED (2002)
THIS IS LONDON (2000)

Tuesday 06-Apr-2004 7:00 PM Gallery Theatre
screening with BALLROOM DANCING

Thursday 15-Apr-2004 9:00 PM Gallry Theatre screening with PUTIN'S MAMA