The documentary's authors, i.e. staffers of the NDR regional television-radio company, which is part and parcel of the ARD network, will show a hitherto walled-in world for the first time ever, the company's web site notes.
Cleaners, soldiers, electricians or cooks, senators, presidential advisers, musicians or restorers fulfill their tasks in the Kremlin every day, the web site goes on to say. Each of them is ready to do his or her best; consequently, the well-trained Kremlin machine functions without a hitch. However, these people were not allowed to publicly discuss their everyday life outside the Kremlin.
This is the German TV company's first chance to interview those living and working in the Kremlin.
The sixty-minute documentary was created on a par with Russian television's Channel One, the Ostankino TV-and-radio company, France-2 and Austria's ORF.
State-of-the-art equipment was used for filming this documentary. For instance, two huge cranes placed a "flying camera" on a rope above the Kremlin and Red Square. That camera depicted old buildings from 80-meter altitudes an at an unprecedented angle. Russian TV crews first used such a camera during Vladimir Putin's inauguration ceremony.
It is also intended to show this documentary in Austria. Moreover, it will debut in France several days from now.
