26° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
BRITISH RENAISSANCE

BRITANNIA HOSPITAL

BRITANNIA HOSPITAL

Country: UK
Year: 1982
Duration: 116'


A luxurious hospital in London is about
to receive a visit from the Queen Mother.
Outside, protesters are pressing at the
gates. Inside, a crazy surgeon has just
finished transforming a nosy reporter into
a Frankenstein-like creature. Despite
everything, the royal visit takes place.
An unbridled, surreal portrait of England
in the 1980s by the father of Free Cinema,
Lindsay Anderson, as mean as ever.

Biography

film director

Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Anderson (Bangalore, India, 1923 - Angoulême, France, 1994) graduated in 1948 from Oxford, where he was captivated by theater. He was one of the first collaborators of the magazine “Sequence” and the founder along with Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson of Free Cinema. He directed several short films, like O Dreamland and Every Day Except Christmas, and his debut feature film was This Sporting Life (1963). In 1968 he made If…, which won the Golden Palm at Cannes, and then dedicated himself primarily to theater and television. He later directed films such as O Lucky Man! (1973), Britannia Hospital (1982) and, in 1986, The Whales of August, the last film he directed for cinema.

FILMOGRAFIA

Meet the Pioneers (mm, doc., 1948), Three Installations (cm, doc., 1952), O Dreamland (cm, doc., 1953), Thursday’s Children (cm, doc., 1954), £20 a Ton (cm, doc., 1955), A Hundred Thousand Children (cm, doc., 1955), Every Day Except Christmas (mm, doc., 1957), This Sporting Life (Io sono un campione, 1963), The White Bus (mm, 1967), If... (Se..., 1968), O Lucky Man! (id., 1973), In Celebration (Celebrazione, 1975), Look Back in Anger (1980), Britannia Hospital (id., 1982), The Whales of August (Le balene d’agosto, 1987), Glory! Glory! (tv, 1989), Is That All There Is? (mm, tv, 1993).

Cast

& Credits

regia/director Lindsay Anderson
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay David Sherwin
fotografia/cinematography Mike Fash
montaggio/film editing Michael Ellis
scenografia/production design Norris Spencer
costumi/costume design Ian Hickinbotham, Keith Morton
musica/music Alan Price
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Leonard Rossiter (Potter), Graham Crowden (Millar), Malcolm McDowell (Mick Travis), Joan Plowright (Phyllis)
produttori/producers Davina Belling, Clive Parsons
produzione/production EMI Productions
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