:09:12
The ground beneath Rome
is unpredictable.
:09:15
Every hundred meters,
we come across some important fiind.
:09:23
Naturally, this slows up the work.
:09:26
This is a very diffiicult contract.
:09:28
We merely wanted to resolve
the traffiic problem...
:09:32
with a subway
like Munich's or Dublin's...
:09:36
but here the ground
has eight strata...
:09:39
and we're forced
to become archaeologists.
:09:45
The fiirst time the necessity
of a subway for Rome...
:09:49
was discussed was in 1871 .
:09:52
- You mean 1971 .
- No, exactly a hundred years ago.
:09:55
Roman bureaucracy is even more
unpredictable than Roman soil.
:09:59
The paperwork which has passed
between ourselves...
:10:02
and the community of Rome is enough
to fiill the entire length of subway.
:10:05
Right now we're passing
beneath the Appio Quarter.
:10:10
Agenore!
Agenore, what's that?
:10:13
My God, it's an earthquake!
:10:18
Agenore!
Oh, my God! My God!
:10:33
The buildings overhead
began to crack.
:10:36
Hey, Mike, I'll get
a shot like this. Look.
:10:46
Where are we now?
:10:48
Beneath the Appia Antica,
near San Sebastiano Gate.
:10:52
To your left you can hear the roar
of a genuine underground river.
:10:57
It emerges about
ten kilometers from here...
:10:59
at a place called "Cessati Spiriti."