Tumbledown

original title:
Tumbledown
country / year of production:
Great Britain / 1989
original length:
115 min. , color
premiere:
genre:
TV-film
based on:
director:
Richard Eyre
film script:
Charles Wood
producer:
Richard Broke
cinematographer:
Andrew Dunn
editor:
composer:
Richard Hartley
cast (role):
Colin Andrew Firth (Robert Lawrence) , Paul Rhys (Hugh MacKessac) , David Calder (John Lawrence) , Barbara Leigh-Hunt (Jean Lawrence) , Emma Harbour (Sophie Martin-Wells) , Colin Andrew Firth , Paul Rhys , David Calder , Barbara Leigh-Hunt , Emma Harbour
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plot synopsis:
In 1982 the Scots Guards were pulled from public duties (sentry-mounting in London) and sent to the Falkland Islands as part of the Task Force sent to recover it from Argentina. Unprepared as they were, they fought a savage and decisive battle to capture a vital hill, Mount Tumbledown. During the fighting, Lt. Richard Lawrence was very severely wounded. This film alternates sequences from before and after his wounding: the battle, and his long and difficult recovery and convalescence.
This film alternates sequences from before and after his wounding; the battle, and his long and difficult recovery and convalescence.
keywords:
veterans
war:
Falklands War (1982)
literature:
remarks:
Concerning British public opinion the film has to steer a tricky course. There are on one hand, the tabloid-fuelled jingoism of a country involved in a major fight, and on the other hand the subsequent revulsion that such losses were suffered in a squabble for some barren islands several thousand miles from home.
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