Project Detail

Private Peaceful

Synopsis

A classic rites of passage story of two brothers and the exuberance and pain of their teenage love for the same girl, the pressures of their feudal family life, the horrors and folly of war and the ultimate price of courage and cowardice.

Details

Year
2012
Type of project
Features
Running time
93 mins
Format
S16mm
Director
Pat O'Connor
Producer
Guy de Beaujeu, Simon Reade
Co-Producer
Sue de Beauvoir
Executive Producer
Michael Morpurgo
Editor
Humphrey Dixon
Screenwriter
Simon Reade
Director of Photography
Jerzy Zielinski
Production Designer
Adrian Smith
Sound
John Mooney
Composer
Rachel Portman
Principal cast
Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Jack O'Connell, George Mackay, Alexandra Roach
Costume designer
Anushia Nieradzik

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Fluidity Films Ltd

3 Etsome Hill Cottages
Somerton
Somerset
TA11 6JD

Sales Company

Goldcrest Films International

65-66 Dean St
W1D 4PL
London

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