The Night Watch (2011) ( NightWatch )

The Night Watch (2011) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: NightWatch
Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Richard Laxton

Written By:
Sarah Waters
Paula Milne

Actors:
Jenna Augen ..... Iris Knight
Neal Barry ..... Mr. Bryant
Claudie Blakley ..... Nancy Carmichael
Lucy Briers ..... Binkie
Richard Cambridge ..... Policeman
Kenneth Cranham ..... Horace Mundy
Charles Early ..... Prisoner #1
JJ Feild ..... Robert Fraser
Claire Foy ..... Helen Giniver
Liam Garrigan ..... Reggie Nigri
Richard Huw ..... James Imrie
Caitlin Innes Edwards ..... O'Neil
Phillip Langhorne ..... Cyclist
Colin Mace ..... Harry Hughes
Stephen Matthews ..... Auntie Vi
Anna Maxwell Martin ..... Kay Langrish
Paul Ritter ..... Mr. Pearce
Kris Saddler ..... Airman
Harry Treadaway ..... Duncan Pearce
Alex Waldmann ..... Alec Jennings
Leona Walker ..... Orderly
Phoebe Waller-Bridge ..... Lauren
Tom Weston-Jones ..... Jack Brown
Jodie Whittaker ..... Vivian Pearce
Anna Wilson-Jones ..... Julia Standing

Synopsis:

In post-war London Viv Pearce, seeing married spiv Reggie, runs a dating bureau with Helen Giniver, who lives with her older lover, authoress Julia Standing. Viv's younger brother Duncan, a tormented homosexual, has been in prison and is sought out by his - straight - ex-cellmate Robert Fraser, who served time as a conscientious objector and is now concerned for the boy's welfare. Viv encounters Kay Langrish, a wealthy, reclusive butch lesbian and for both women this evokes memories of 1944 when Kay was an heroic ambulance driver and Helen was Kay's girlfriend, before Kay introduced her to her ex-lover Julia. Viv had an illegal abortion, funded by Reggie, and, after she needed hospital treatment, Kay saved her from prosecution by claiming she was a married woman who had miscarried. Three years earlier Kay and Julia are still an item and Viv meets unhappily married soldier Reggie on a train. Kay pulls Helen from the wreckage of a bombed house whilst we learn why Duncan was in prison following a suicide pact with the boy he loved. As the scene returns to 1947 there are happier endings for some, not for others but there is still optimism.

Set against the turbulent backdrop of London in the 1940s, this adaptation of Sarah Waters' best-selling novel, The Night Watch, follows four young Londoners inextricably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of sexual morality and social convention have been broken down, Kay, Helen, Viv and Duncan enjoy a freedom never experienced before. Moving back in time through the 1940s into the maelstrom of the Blitz, the lives, loves and losses of these four central characters are unravelled. For them, the post war victory is bittersweet, for it returns them to the margins of society from which they hoped they had been liberated. In order to build their future they must each make peace with their past.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 05 September, 2012.

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