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It Happened Here / written, produced and directed by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo.
Independent World Cinema: Classic and Contemporary Film. Available online
Independent World Cinema: Classic and Contemporary Film.- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--England.
- Nurses--England.
- Nurses.
- Nazis.
- England.
- Nazis--England.
- Genre:
- Documentary-style films.
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- War films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (96 minutes)
- Other Title:
- It Happened Here : The Story of Hitler's England
- Place of Publication:
- [Harrington Park, New Jersey] : Milestone Films, [1965]
- Language Note:
- In English; original language in German.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- In It Happened Here, Brownlow and Mollo's brilliant re-write of history, Germany has won World War II and Nazi troops occupy England. Pauline Murray, an apolitical Irish nurse, is transferred to London, where she slowly realizes the horrifying reality behind the occupation. The film is a terrifying intimation of what might have happened if the Allied effort had failed. Brownlow was only 18 and his co-director Mollo was 16, when they started this monumental documentary style drama in 1956. "The German invasion of England took place in July 1940 after the British retreat from Dunkirk. Strongly resisted at first, the German army took many months to restore order. But the resistance movement, lacking outside support, was finally crushed. Then, in 1944, the resistance movement reappeared." After years of hard work and with the help of hundreds of volunteers, It Happened Here was finally completed in 1964. But when United Artists released it two years later, the studio cut seven minutes of controversial material. Milestone's is the first presentation of the complete version here in the USA. It Happened Here influenced a generation of directors with it's documentary-you-are-there style including a very young Peter Watkins.
- Participant:
- Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed December 08, 2016).
- Nominated 1967 BAFTA Awards, Best British Screenplay
- Won 1964 Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival, Prize of the Adult Education Center's Jury
- OCLC:
- 971286317
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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