Country: UK
Year: 2008
Duration: 71\'
Tommo just turned sixteen and he’s running away to London to escape “During the last year, travelling from Nottingham to London by train,
a lonely, difficult life in the Midlands. In Somers Town, a London
neighborhood by St Pancras rail station, he meets the young Marek,
a quiet and sensitive keen photographer who lives with his father,
a Polish construction worker who spends his evenings drinking with
friends. Unknown to his father, Marek offers homeless Tommo a place
to stay. The two boys soon become friends and they both fall in love
for Maria, a beautiful French waitress who works at their local café.
it was amazing watching the changes happening around the
St Pancras area and the idea of making a film that was set in this
period of transition was immediately attractive. It was the first film
I have made in London and I wanted to try and capture both the
familiarity and the strangeness of the place. In a funny way it has also
become a much more cosmopolitan production than my previous work,
with a cast from Poland, France and the UK and an Argentinean
director of photography.”
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
regia/director Shane Meadows
sceneggiatura/screenplay Paul Fraser
fotografia/cinematography Natasha Braier
montaggio/film editing Richard Graham
scenografia/production design Lisa Marie Hall
costumi/costume design Jo Thompson
musica/music Gavin Clarke
suono/sound Danny Crowley
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Piotr Jagiello (Marek), Thomas Turgoose (Tommo), Ireneusz Czop (Marius), Elisa Lasowski (Maria), Perry Benson (Graham), Kate Dickie (Jane), Huggy Leaver (il
proprietario del bar/ Cafè Owner), Mariusz Gajewski, Tomasz Kamola, Nojaech Magenyuski, Sebastian Palka (gli amici polacchi/Polish Friends)
produttore/producer Barnaby Spurrier
produzione/production Tomboy Films
vendita all’estero/world sales The Works International
sceneggiatura/screenplay Paul Fraser
fotografia/cinematography Natasha Braier
montaggio/film editing Richard Graham
scenografia/production design Lisa Marie Hall
costumi/costume design Jo Thompson
musica/music Gavin Clarke
suono/sound Danny Crowley
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Piotr Jagiello (Marek), Thomas Turgoose (Tommo), Ireneusz Czop (Marius), Elisa Lasowski (Maria), Perry Benson (Graham), Kate Dickie (Jane), Huggy Leaver (il
proprietario del bar/ Cafè Owner), Mariusz Gajewski, Tomasz Kamola, Nojaech Magenyuski, Sebastian Palka (gli amici polacchi/Polish Friends)
produttore/producer Barnaby Spurrier
produzione/production Tomboy Films
vendita all’estero/world sales The Works International