Project Detail

Think of England

Six figures stand on a windy beach.

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 - Competition - World premiere

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

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