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Hope and Glory
History film with a runtime of 113 minutes, released in 1987. Presented in English.
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Synopsis
Director John Boorman pulled a few stylistic pages from Chabrol and Fellini for the intensely autobiographical Hope and Glory. The film is set in London during World War II; we see all through the eyes of Boorman's alter ego, 9-year-old Billy (Sebastian Rice-Edwards). Though surrounded by the horror and tragedy of the war, Billy adopts a child's objectivity, viewing the passing parade in wonder rather than terror. After his family's home is destroyed, Billy is given a different perspective on life when he is evacuated to his grandfather's idyllic country home. Sarah Miles co-stars in Hope and Glory as Billy's mother, while director Boorman's son Charlie portrays a German paratrooper in the now-famous scene where dozens of London women converge to cut precious chunks of silk from the German boy's parachute.
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Cast
- Sebastian Rice Edwards
- Sammi Davis
- Sarah Miles
- Geraldine Muir
- David Hayman
- Derrick O'Connor
- Susan Wooldridge
- Jean-Marc Barr
- Ian Bannen
- Anne Leon
- Annie Leon
- Jill Baker
- Amelda Brown
- Katrine Boorman
- Colin Higgins
- Shelagh Fraser
- Gerald James
- Barbara Pierson
- Nicky Taylor
- Sara Langton
- Imogen Cawrse
- Susan Brown
- Charley Boorman
- Peter Hughes
- Christine Crowshaw
- William Armstrong
- Arthur Cox
- Ann Thornton
- Andrew Bicknell
- Jodie Andrews
- Nicholas Askew
- Jamie Bowman
- Colin Dale
- David Parkin
- Carlton Taylor
- Ian Crafford
- Peter Handford
- Phil Stokes
- Don Dossett
- Philippe Rousselot
- Anna Dryhurst
- Joan Woollard
- Shirley Russell
- Mary Selway
- Rodney Fuller
- Anthony Pratt
- John Boorman
- Michael Dryhurst
- Edgar F. Gross
- John Hayward
- Peter Martin
- Michael Collins
- Jake Eberts
- Ron Davis
- John Harris
- Anthony Van Laast
