Development - ENGLISH, WELSH - Comedy, Historical - 90 minutes
“Not one painting shall leave this island” – Winston Churchill, 1940
Year of production : 2022 Director(s) : Crispin WOOD Writer(s) : Crispin WOOD, Henry FITZHERBERT Cast : Timothy SPALL, Juliet STEVENSON, Miriam MARGOLYES, Iwan RHEON Producer(s) : Michael DOBBIN (Quiet Revolution Pictures), Crispin WOOD (Blighty Films)
London, 1939. War is looming as the Director of the National Gallery faces an unbearable task. The entire collection must be hidden in a slate mine near a small village in northwest Wales. A young man’s obsession with one particularly raunchy Rembrandt in combination with a torrential rainstorm, brings the villagers together to rescue the pictures, hanging them up around the pub and in their houses, only to find that their lives – and in particular their love lives – are transformed by a new appreciation of such spectacular works of art they would probably never have otherwise encountered.
Country(ies) : UNITED KINGDOM Start of shooting : August 2022