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This is an imaginative realisation of a German occupation of Britain in July, 1940: Pauline Murray, an Irish girl working in England, joins up in 1944 with the re-emerging Resistance. On a 7,000 pound budget the filmmakers’ recreated a newsreel style but did not use stock or newsreel footage, a direct reaction to fifties war movies which they felt never dealt with the nature of Nazism. A controversial sequence showed real British Nazis expressing their beliefs. The documentary style drama took eight years to complete.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
309395
Language
English
Audience classification
PG
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Realism in motion pictures
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Archival materials
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Newsreels - United States
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → World War, 1939-1945
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → National socialism
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)