The main story is set in a British Military Intelligence Office in Whitehall during 1956, where a...
The main story is set in a British Military Intelligence Office in Whitehall during 1956, where a small group of foreign affairs analysts find their quiet existence disrupted by the Suez Crisis. Ewan McGregor plays Mick Hopper, who is doing his national service as an interpreter of Russian documents. Bored with his job, Hopper spends his days creating fantasy daydreams that involve his work colleagues breaking into contemporary hit songs. Louise Germaine plays Sylvia Berry, the blonde wife of the violent Corporal Pete Berry (Douglas Henshall). Sylvia is an object of desire for Mick's fellow clerk Private Francis Francis and a middle-aged pipe-organist named Harold Atterbow (Roy Hudd). Unlike the street-wise Hopper, Francis is a clumsy Welsh intellectual whose academic career has been interrupted by his army call up. The appearance of the bookish niece of a seconded American officer enables the two conscripts to pair off with suitable partners, after initial mismatching. Some of the side themes include the influence of American rock and roll on English society, the gulf between the senior analysts, who are regular army officers, and the conscripted other ranks, the work of Russian playwright Chekhov, and the appreciation of opulent theatre pipe organs. The unusual context — a military culture transplanted into a civil service style office environment — reflects Potter's own national service during the 1950s. While this piece has the form of a romantic comedy, unlike the less conventional works of Dennis Potter's middle period, it is not without graphic sex and violence, as well as Potter's characteristic flashes of dreamlike imagery. The centrepiece of this production is the surreal musical sequence set to the song In a Persian Market.
伊万·麦克格雷格,查理·布尔曼
艾伦·图代克
梅兰妮·斯科洛凡诺,格伦·古尔德,史蒂文·奥格,大卫·詹姆斯·艾略特,Romy Weltman,CM朋克,Andy McQueen,Jimmy MacKinley,Amy Rivard
汤姆·希林,艾米莉·考克斯,迈克尔·伊霍夫,萨沙·亚历山大·吉尔萨克,Amer El-Erwadi,Pamuk Pilavci,Viktoria Schreiber
凯西·贝茨,斯凯·P·马歇尔,大卫·德尔·里奥,莉娅·刘易斯,Aaron D. Harris,杰森·雷特,艾米·伊库瓦克,乔丁·韦茨,博·布里奇斯,Henry Allen,妮可·德波儿,Helen Hayden,约翰·比灵斯列,玛尼·卡朋特,克里斯蒂娜 菲拉罗,琳恩·A·弗里德曼,Ayesha Harris,Yuli Zorrilla,特琳·威斯特布鲁克,Henry LeBlanc
朱迪·福斯特,卡莉·瑞斯,约翰·浩克斯,克里斯托弗·埃克莱斯顿,费奥纳·肖,芬·贝内特,安娜·兰贝,阿卡·尼维亚娜,伊莎贝拉·拉布兰克,乔尔·蒙格朗,索尔斯坦·巴赫曼,贡纳·贝西·比昂森,达伦·福尔曼,阿尼·拉鲁森,维尔海姆·托尔·内托,莎拉·道格·阿斯盖尔斯杜提尔