The Falklands Play ( The Falklands )

The Falklands Play (DVD) (*)

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Ursprünglicher Titel: The Falklands
Ton und Untertitel:
Englisch ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Englisch ( Subtitles )

Product Ursprung/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2&4 )

Laufzeit:
90 min

Längenverhältnis:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Bonusmaterial:
Wechselwirkendes Menü
Szene Zugang

Film innen gefilmet und produziert:
Vereinigte Königreich ( Großbritannien, Irland )

Vorbei Verwiesen:
Michael Samuels

Vorbei Geschrieben:
Ian Curteis

Schauspieler:
Patricia Hodge ..... Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP (Prime Minister)
James Fox ..... Rt Hon Peter, 6th Baron Carrington KCMG MC (Foreign Secretary)
John Standing ..... Rt Hon William Whitelaw CH MC MP (Home Secretary)
Michael Cochrane ..... Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
Jeremy Child ..... Rt Hon Francis Pym MC MP (Lord President of the Council
Rupert Vansittart ..... Sir Robert Armstrong (Cabinet Secretary)
Jonathan Coy ..... Richard Luce MP (Minister of State, Foreign Office)
Clive Merrison ..... Rt Hon John Nott MP (Secretary of State for Defence)
Peter Blythe ..... Rt Hon Sir Michael Havers QC MP (Attorney-General)
Jeremy Clyde ..... Sir Nicholas Henderson (HM Ambassador to the United States)
Colin Stinton ..... Alexander Haig (US Secretary of State)
Shaughan Seymour ..... Adm. Sir Henry Leach (First Sea Lord)
Anthony Calf ..... Robin Fearn (Head of Falkland Islands Department, Foreign Office)
Jasper Jacob ..... John Wilkinson MP (Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Nott)
Richard Cordery ..... Tom Enders (US Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs)

Synopsis:

No German review yet:
Magnificent performance from the stellar cast, news clips highlights the major events and a dramatic behind-the-scenes story of a government at war, this is the play once deemed too controversial to produce. In 1982, Margaret Thatcher's government sent British forces to war to regain the Falkland Islands from occupying Argentinian troops. Four years later, the BBC commissioned a play on the conflict, only for playwright Ian Curteis's work to be shelved, amidst claims it had been deferred because of the imminent General Election. 20 years later, the play was finally produced: a gripping account of how Margaret Thatcher and her government faced the biggest crisis in foreign affairs for a generation. Beginning with the mute reactions and American indifference to the early Argentinian manoeuvres, we follow the story through to cabinet resignations and UN resolutions as the crisis develops and the Task Force is deployed.
As the task force nears the Falkland Islands, war becomes a distinct possibility. The tension increases as backroom manoeuvrings between Thatcher's government, the military, the Americans and the Argentinians only lead to a breakdown in diplomacy with an inevitable conflict. As a war Cabinet struggles to direct military strategy thousands of miles from the battleground the anguish and drama intensifies, and a steadfast but emotional Prime Minister takes each mistake, tragedy and success to heart...

Diesen Artikel haben wir am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2012 in unseren Katalog aufgenommen.