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Listen To Me Marlon

Synopsis

With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive, including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is a definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. With Brando himself as your guide, the film charts his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen. Exploring the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice... just Brando on Brando and life.
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Details

Year
2015
Type of project
Features
Running time
102 mins
Format
HD
Director
Stevan Riley
Producer
John Battsek, George Chignell, R.J. Cutler
Co-Producer
Nicole Stott
Executive Producer
Jeffrey I. Abrams, Avra Douglas, Andrew Ruhemann
Editor
Stevan Riley
Screenwriter
Stevan Riley, Peter Ettedgui (co-writer)
Director of Photography
Ole Bratt Birkeland
Production Designer
Kristian Milsted
Sound
Sound Re-recording Mixer And Supervising Sound Editor: George Foulgham

Categories

Documentary

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Passion Pictures

County House
33-34 Rathbone Place
London
W1T 1JN

Sales Company

NBC Universal (Home Entertainment Sales)

Rozzie Inge
Central Saint Giles
St Giles High Street
London
WC2H 8NU

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