Russian Night
Back in the winter of 1982, one of the biggest disasters in football history took place at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow with an estimated 300 people losing their lives. After 25 years, those involved break their silence and we finally learn what really happened on the stairs of Stand C. Oct 2008 for NPO2 and ESPN Classic.
However, ESPN Classic will examine the shocking truth behind what really happened with an exclusive screening of “Russian Night: The Moscow Football Disaster“.
Film-makers Thomas Blom and Jan Pieter Tuinstra, together with researcher Irina Anatsheva, have carefully reconstructed events during that dreadful evening in Moscow, featuring the exclusive stories of the surviving relatives and eyewitnesses and following them during the first official memorial on the 20th October 2007.
After 25 years, those involved break their silence and we finally learn what really happened on the stairs of Stand C.