Photographing Fairies / The Commissioner

Photographing Fairies / The Commissioner (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Fantasporto Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
208 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1997 - 1998 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
George Sluizer
Nick Willing

Written By:
Christina Kallas
George Sluizer
Chris Harrald
Steve Szilagyi

Actors:
John Hurt ..... James Morton
Rosana Pastor ..... Helena Moguentes
Alice Krige ..... Isabelle Morton
Armin Mueller-Stahl ..... Hans Koenig
Johan Leysen ..... Horst Kramer
Simon Chandler ..... Peter Simpson
David Morrissey ..... Murray Lomax
James Faulkner ..... Gordon Cartwright
Alan MacNaughton ..... Karl Ritter
Bill Bolender ..... Arthur Groom
Julian Wadham ..... Prime minister
Adrian Brine ..... President of Court
Kevork Malikyan ..... Greek commissioner
John Abbott ..... Commissioner's Laywer
Max Gold ..... Morton Lawyer
Toby Stephens ..... Charles Castle
Emily Woof ..... Linda
Ben Kingsley ..... Reverend Templeton
Frances Barber ..... Beatrice Templeton
Philip Davis ..... Roy (as Phil Davis)
Hannah Bould ..... Clara Templeton
Miriam Grant ..... Ana Templeton
Rachel Shelley ..... Mrs. Anne-Marie Castle
Edward Hardwicke ..... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Clive Merrison ..... Gardner
Stephen Churchett ..... Mr. Dawson
Mary Healey ..... Mrs. Dawson
Maggie Wells ..... Mrs. Hoopdriver
Richenda Carey ..... Fierce Woman
Jeremy Young ..... Des

Synopsis:

Photographing Fairies (1997)

Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets where he becomes drawn into a web of passion, romance and violence..

The Commissioner (1998)

A member of the British Government is sent to Brussels to become British Commissioner to the European Community. He is made aware of a web of political and industrial corruption through a series of anonymous letters. Despite his own history of political expediency, the Commissioner rises to the moral challenge and faces off with the evil forces responsible.

Photographing Fairies (1997)
Story begins with Charles Castle who, in 1912, marries the girl of his dreams only to lose her 24 hours later when a snow fissure swallows her in Switzerland. He is off to World War I a few years later as a corpse photographer and later, after the war, opens a portrait studio with his war buddy Roy. After unmasking a forgery at the trendy Theosophical Society, he is approached by Bea Templeton who asks him to test some photos taken by her daughters. The photos purport to show fairies at play, and Castle is intrigued enough to visit the Templeton's rural home. After Bea's mysterious death, he becomes more obsessed with communing with the fairies who offer him a chance to reach the Other Side and reunite with his lost love.

The Commissioner (1998)
George Sluizer (The Vanishing) directed this German-British-Belgian thriller about politico James Morton (John Hurt) who relocates in Brussels as the British commissioner to the Euro parliament, leaving his wife Isabelle (Alice Krige) behind. As British and German chemical outfits are about to merge, Metro Chemical researcher Hans Konig (Armin Mueller-Stahl) tips him that his company is creating weapons and is run by a former Nazi. Morton stops the merger, but information leaks trigger Konig's arrest for industrial espionage and the bombing of Morton's apartment, followed by more corporate intrigue. Shown at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 07 May, 2010.

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