Megacities
Type
Label
Megacities
Intended audience
Censorship classification: R. High level sexual activity. High level drug use
Main title
Megacities
Oclc number
890270268
Summary
A film in twelve chapters which tells the tales of people from Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow and New York, who are all struggling for daily survival, with ingenuity, intelligence and dignity. Focuses on the lives of Shankar, the Bioscope Man; Modesto, the chicken feet vendor; Baba Khan, the paint recycler; Nestor, the trash scavenger; street kids Oleg, Borya, Kolya and Misha; Cassandra, the performer; Larissa, the crane driver and Toni, the hustler
Subject
- Poverty + Case studies
- Foreign language documentary
- Bombay (India) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Moscow (Russia) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Urban poor + Case studies
- Documentary films
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Mexico City (Mexico) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Foreign language documentary -- Austria
Content
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor3
- Subject9
- Poverty + Case studies
- Foreign language documentary
- Bombay (India) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Moscow (Russia) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Urban poor + Case studies
- Documentary films
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Mexico City (Mexico) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Foreign language documentary -- Austria
- Content1
- Mapped to1