'SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT'
WITH EDDIE IZZARD, JUDI DENCH, JAMES D'ARCY, JIM BROADBENT
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| James D'Arcy will play a Captain in the movie |
We're still sticking to our good old period set drama genre with the news that the shooting has begun on
SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT which boasts an exquisite selection of British thespians in the cast lead by
Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, James D'Arcy, Celyn Jones (who also wrote the script) and
Jim Broadbent!
In the movie, based on true events from 1939, Izzard, who recently
already played with
Judi Dench in
Victoria and Abdul, plays a teacher
named Thomas Miller who has taken a last minute and controversial role
teaching English to the daughters of high ranking Nazis at the Augusta
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| Judi Dench will be the strict headmistress! |
Victoria College, Bexhill-on-Sea – a finishing school on the south coast
of England. Under the watchful eye of their headmistress Miss Rocholl
(
Judi Dench), and her devout assistant Ilse Keller (
Carla Juri), the
girls practice their English and learn how to represent the ideal of
German womanhood. When the body of a former teacher is discovered, it
triggers a sequence of deadly events and leaves Thomas running from the
police with the threat of being hanged for murder.
WW2 'DAS BOOT' SERIES
FIRST PHOTO EMERGES!
Speaking of
James D'Arcy check out the first photo from
DAS BOOT TV series which also stars
Tom Wlaschiha,
Vincent Kartheiser and
Thierry Frémont alongside
Lizzy Caplan! Inspired by the Oscar nominated film of
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| Franz Dinda, Rick Okon and August Wittgenstein in Das Boot |
the same name from
Wolfgang Petersen,
the eight part series has the story set on a submarine in autumn 1942,
as U-boat warfare becomes increasingly brutal. While a very young crew
put out to sea on a dangerous combat patrol, the Résistance rises in the
U-boat port of La Rochelle. Sky will air the series in most of Europe.