THE UNDERGROUND
ORCHESTRA
aka HET ONDERGRONDSE ORKEST

Year: 1998
UK: Barbican
Director: Heddy Honigmann
Country: Netherlands
Language: Dutch (English subtitles)
UK: 108 mins
UK Certificate: PG
UK Release Date: 9 June 2000

THE UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA is a documentary on the buskers on the Paris Metro. It highlights the fact that most of these musicians are refugees, exiled from their home countries and are trying to make a meagre living from their playing in the face of an indifferent public and the harsh reality of trying to establish a life in a foreign country.