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QUEEN AND COUNTRY
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline
Release date : Jun 11, 2015
 
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Completed - ENGLISH - Comedy, Drama - 114 minutes

Year of production : 2013

Director(s) : John BOORMAN
Writer(s) : John BOORMAN
Cast : Caleb LANDRY JONES, Callum TURNER, David THEWLIS

Producer(s) : Kieran CORRIGAN (Merlin Films)

Synopsis

1952. Bill Rowan is 18, dreaming his life away at the family’s riverside home, waiting to be called up for two years conscription in the Army. He swims each morning and yearns for a pretty girl who cycles past at that time on the tow path across the river. This idyll is shattered by the harsh realities of boot camp. He meets Percy, an amoral prankster, and together they plot the downfall of Sergeant Yeomans, their rigid tormentor. Percy and Bill are rivals and antagonists, but gradually forge a deep friendship. After basic training many conscripts are shipped out to fight the Chinese in the Korean War, but Bill and Percy are assigned to the claustrophobia of a closed, prison-like training camp where they act as instructors. The pressure is briefly relieved by excursions into the outside world where Bill falls in love with the wrong girl, but finds the right one in the end. Bill’s older sister returns from Canada with her two children and the hard-headed Percy falls head over heels for her. Finally, Bill is confronted with the shattered lives of wounded boys returning from Korea.

Production

Country(ies) : UNITED KINGDOM, IRELAND

BELGIUM Jan 07, 2015 ATHENA FILMS
BRAZIL Apr 28, 2015 FILMES DA MOSTR
BULGARIA Apr 01, 2015 SOFIA INTERNATI
FRANCE Jan 07, 2015 LE PACTE
HUNGARY VERTIGO MEDIA L
NEW ZEALAN Jun 11, 2015 RIALTO DISTRIBU
PORTUGAL ALAMBIQUE
SWITZERLAN Apr 08, 2015 ADOK FILMS
UNITED KIN CURZON ARTIFICI
UNITED KIN CURZON FILM WOR
USA FILM FORUM


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Festivals and Awards

Directors' Fortnight 2014 Directors' Fortnight
San Sebastian FF 2014 Film Library (not in selection)


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