In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microcosm of the world, the kitchen looms around and encloses its workers; they include Peter, the German cook, who is in love with waitress Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and when Peter realises that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband his grief and pain cause him to run berserk!
Acting
Carl Möhner's simmer-to-boil breakdown is genuinely unhinged.
Direction
Hill traps you in the kitchen's sweaty, cacophonous hellscape.
Production
Real working kitchen built on soundstage—smell the grease.
Director
James Hill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from Arnold Wesker's 1959 Royal Court play, part of Britain's 'kitchen sink realism' movement that dragged working-class life onto stages and screens with zero glamour.
The entire film was shot in just ten days on a shoestring budget, with actors actually cooking real food that was then served to the crew.
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