72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Red Joan

Trevor Nunn
UK      110 m.
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The year is 2000 and Joan Stanley is living in contented retirement in suburbia at the turn of the millennium. Her tranquil life is suddenly disrupted when she's arrested by MI5 and accused of providing intelligence to Communist Russia. Cut to 1938 where Joan is a Cambridge physics student who falls for young communist Leo Galich and through him, begins to see the world in a new light. Working at a top-secret nuclear research facility during WWII, Joan comes to the realisation that the world is on the brink of mutually assured destruction. Confronted with an impossible question - what price would you pay for peace? - Joan must choose between betraying her country and loved ones or saving them.

Director
Trevor Nunn
Screenplay
Lindsay Shapero
Production
Trademark Films (United Kingdom)
David Parfitt
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Embankment Films (United Kingdom)
Distribution
Vértice Cine (Spain)
Photography
Zac Nicholson
Edition
Kristina Hetherington
Music
George Fenton
Cast
Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson
Format
DCP FOLLOWING DCI
Running Time
110 m.
Country
UK
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