During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944.
Editing
Seamless weaving of 1940s archival footage into fiction.
Cinematography
Grainy black-and-white that erases past and present boundaries.
Direction
Cooper's documentary background brings devastating authenticity.
Director
Stuart Cooper
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stuart Cooper discovered the archival footage in a forgotten Ministry of Information vault; much of it had never been screened publicly.
The film was barely released in 1975, then vanished until a 2006 rediscovery made critics call it the greatest British war film nobody saw.
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