Project Detail

Think of England

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…

Details

Year: 2025
Type of film: Features
Running time: 102 min
Director: Richard Hawkins
Producer: Poppy O'Hagan, Nick O'Hagan
Executive Producer: Geoffrey Freeman
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

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Post-production

Production Company

Giant Films Limited

124 City Road
London
EC1V 2NX

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