Country: UK
Year: 1997
Duration: 96'


Alan Darcy is an inspired visionary, obsessed with restoring dignity to a town's dissolute youth. He sets up a boxing club and his diaries chart their comic efforts to regain not only their fitness but an identity lost in the dark temptations of modern life. The story is a celebration of this uncommon man, seen through the trials of his reluctant disciples.

Biography

film director

Shane Meadows

Shane Meadows (Uttoxeter, UK, 1972), after dropping out of school, tried a variety of jobs until he started shooting short films. Film producer Stephen Woolley signed him to direct Twenty Four Seven (1997), which was presented in several international film festivals and won numerous awards such as the FIPRESCI Award at Venice. The following comedy Once Upon a Time in the Midlands was selected at the Cannes Film Festival, and in 2000 he presented at Toronto Film Festival This Is England: the film was followed by two tv series, also directed by Meadows. In 2008 Somers Town was premiered at the Berlinale and the following year the mockumentary Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee screened at 27th Turin Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

King of the Gypsys (cm, 1995), Small Time (1996), Where’s the Money, Ronnie? (cm, 1996), Twenty Four Seven (Ventiquattrosette, 1997), A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (C’era una volta in Inghilterra, 2002), Dead Man’s Shoes (2004), Northern Soul (mm, 2004), The Stairwell (cm, 2005), This Is England (id., 2006), Somers Town (2008), Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee (2009), The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (doc., 2013).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Shane Meadows, Paul Fraser.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Shane Meadows, Paul Fraser.
Director of photography: Ashley Rowe.
Art director: Niall Moroney.
Costume designer: Philip Crichton.
Editor: Bill Diver.
Music: Boo Hewerdine, Neill MacCoil.
Sound: Rosie Straker.
Cast and characters: Bob Hoskins (Alan Darcy), Danny Nussbaum (Tim), James Hooton (Knighty), Darren O. Campbell (Daz), Justin Brady (Gadget).
Producer: Imogen West.
Direttori di produzione: George Faber, David Thompson, Stephen Woolley, Nik Powell.
Production company: BBC Films, 56 Wood Lane, Center House, London WIZ 7S13, Uk, tel. +441817438000 Scala Productions, London WIR 3FD, Uk, tel. +441717347060, fax +441714373240.
Foreign sales agent: The Sales Company, 62 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1V 7DE, UK, tel. +44-1714349061, fax +441714943293.
Italian distribution: Bim Distribuzione, via degli Scipioni 295, 00192 Roma, Italy, tel. +39063231057, fax +39-06-3220096.
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