Project Detail

Think of England

Name: Think of England
Director: Richard Hawkins
Genre: Drama
Released: 2025
Duration: 102 min

Synopsis

It is the summer of 1943. A small and very disparate group of people arrive on a remote Orkney island beach tasked with a top secret mission - the making of pornographic films for the boys at the front. For who knows how long this war still has to run, and fighting morale - as we learned only too well from the last one - is everything.
So then, a very war-damaged former movie star; a celebrated German film-director; a munitions-machinist-come-aspiring-actress; an Etonian major from the Ministry of Information; an aging, alcoholic hair-and-makeup artist; a young lad, as innocent as can be, and right on the very threshold of war’s bloodbath.
Oh, and a half-starved and very ragged Luftwaffe pilot, watching on from afar…
Official Selection Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2026 - Winner, Best Production Design - Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Glasgow Film Festival 2026
Official Selection Manchester Film Festival 2026

Details

Year: 2025
Type of project: Features
Running time: 102 min
Director: Richard Hawkins
Producer: Poppy O'Hagan, Nick O'Hagan
Executive Producer: Geoffrey Freeman, Andrew Wood, Lucas Wood-Oliván
Editor: Alex Snelling
Screenwriter: Richard Hawkins
Director of Photography: Sarah Cunningham
Production Designer: Chris Richmond
Principal cast: Ronni Ancona, John McCrea, Natalie Quarry, Jack Bandeira, Ben Bela Böhm, Oscar Hoppe