Hope and Glory
John Boorman
September 1939. The beginning of the war between Germany and Great Britain is also the beginning of a very eventful period for the young Bill Rohen. He lives in the suburbs of London with his mother, sister and aunts while the men are off at the front. In spite of the sirens and bombings, life continues on. Bill goes to school, collects shrapnel and plays with other children his age in the rubble, which has become a gigantic playing field. Faced with the daily danger, the family goes to the country to live with the grandparents .
With : Sarah Miles, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Géraldine Muir, David Hayman, Sammi Davis, Derrick O'Connor, Susan Wooldridge
Screenplay : John Boorman
Image : Philippe Rousselot
Editing : Ian Crafford
Music : Peter Martin
Screenplay : John Boorman
Image : Philippe Rousselot
Editing : Ian Crafford
Music : Peter Martin
Production : John Boorman
Distribution: Columbia Pictures Tristar
Distribution: Columbia Pictures Tristar
From his extremely varied filmography (Zardoz, Excalibur, Point Blank, The Emerald Forest), Hope and Glory is surely John Boorman's most autobiographical film: "[This film] evokes my personal memory of World War II, the most euphoric and thrilling period of my childhood. For a kid, it was a marvelously magical time, a pleasant mixture of delight and terror that I hope to have captured in this film." But the film is also the story of a family that embodies "the evolution of English society and the birth of a new middle-class during the 30's."