Project Detail

Subterrain

Synopsis

Christmas Eve 2001: Seamus - a lonely poster-paster who works the night shift at Aldwych tube station - is taken on a nocturnal journey by the spirit of a deceased train driver. Having resigned himself to a life of drudgery and routine, the poster-paster's drab existence is questioned by the spirits of those who have died in the station throughout its 100 year history. Subterrain is a modern day fable that uses as its inspiration the story of Dickens' A Christmas Carol in the setting of Dante's Divine Comedy, with a conclusion akin to It's A Wonderful Life.

Details

Year: 2003
Type of film: Features
Running time: 51 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Producer: Adrian Sturges, Michelle Gomez
Editor: Martin Swann
Screenwriter: Rupert Wyatt
Director of Photography: Phillipp Blaubach
Sound: Mitch Low
Composer: Michael Nyman, Simon Bourlier, Des Montagu
Principal cast: Jamie Harris, John Challis, Jack Davenport

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Picture Farm

7 Denmark Street
London WC2H 8LZ
UK

T +44 (0)20 7379 0676

info@picture-farm.com

Sales Company

Optimum Releasing

9 Rathbone Place
London W1T 1HW
UK

T+44 (0)20 7637 5403

will@optimumreleasing.com

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