Brothers of the Head
Synopsis
As teenagers in the early 1970s, the Howe twins were plucked from obscurity by a music promoter who groomed them into a rock-and-roll act. Against all expectations, the boys - performing as The Bang-Bang - quickly appropriated their status as 'freaks' and spat it back in the form of searing, aggressive rock.
Grasping at the truth from an array of often unreliable accounts, the story follows the twins as they negotiate love, artistic rivalry, and the cruel suppression of their unique voice.
Brothers of the Head investigates our impulse to celebrate the extraordinary, and our tragic compulsion to claim, de-mystify and destroy it.
Details
- Year
- 2005
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 90 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
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Louis Pepe, Keith Fulton
- Producer
- Tony Grisoni, Lisa Marie Russo
- Co-Producer
- Tony Grisoni, Lisa Marie Russo
- Editor
- Nic Gaster
- Screenwriter
- Tony Grisoni
- Director of Photography
- Anthony Dod Mantle
- Sound
- Tim Barker
- Composer
- Clive Langer
- Principal cast
- Luke Treadaway, Harry Treadaway
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Potboiler Productions
9 Greek StreetLondon W1D 4DQ
UK
T+44 (0)20 7734 7372
abbie@potboiler.co.uk
Sales Company
Hanway Films
24 Hanway StreetLondon W1T 1UH
UK
T+44 (0)20 7290 0750
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