Director
Richard Loncraine
Starring
Bernard Hill, Derek Newark, Richard Hope, Ken Bones, Kieran O'Brien
Certificate
15
Run Time
150 mins
Release Year
1987
Country of Origin
UK
Language
English
Format
35mm
Director of Photography: Ken Westbury
Editor: Paul Green
Produced by: Christopher Neame, Michael Wearing
Music: Colin Towns
Screenplay by: Desmond Lowden, Richard Loncraine, Michael Wearing
Production Designer: Jon Bunker
Director Bio
Richard Loncraine
P&I - Director Bio
Richard Loncraine (b. 1946) is a British director. He studied sculpture at the Central School of Art before attending the Royal College of Art Film School. He received early training in the features department of the BBC. In 1996, he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival for Richard III.
Bellman and True
Part of the Retrospective: The Future Is History Strand
Opening on a train arriving in ghostly slow-motion to an ominous piano soundtrack, it’s clear from the outset that this story of a father and son embroiled in a bank robbery is no ordinary crime cinema. Focusing on the emotional side of the formula and making the most of star Bernard Hill’s extraordinary naturalism, director Richard Loncraine turns the British thriller inside-out to deliver a tense, haunting drama with an offbeat sense of humour and flashes of a brutal edge.
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