The Falklands Play ( The Falklands )

The Falklands Play (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Falklands
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Michael Samuels

Written By:
Ian Curteis

Actors:
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:

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...

Twenty years ago, Britain went to war to regain the Falkland Islands. The Falklands Play is a gripping account of how Margaret Thatcher's government handled the biggest crisis in British foreign affairs since Suez. It tells the story of how Argentina - an ally of the British - fought the Conservative government and invaded sovereign British territory. This play charts the backroom manoeuvrings between Thatcher's government and the military, between the British and the Americans, and the Americans and the Argentineans that led to a breakdown in diplomacy, to war and to Britain's eventual victory.

TV play telling the inside story of how the Thatcher government went to war to regain the Falkland Islands.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 14 February, 2012.