Directed by cult British director John Krish, this noirish docudrama film was sponsored by the Army Kinema Corporation. A tightly
plotted script shows British POWs enduring brainwashing and torture
during the Korean War. The film was labelled ‘restricted’ and withheld
from the public until 2004. It was only shown as
a military instruction film to teach officers and cleared staff what one had to expect if ever captured and interrogated by the enemy.
Performed by very good actors such as Ray Brooks and Wilfrid Brambell, with Alan Dobie as
an intelligence officer who is caught and subjected to tortures now
hideously familiar from the war on terror such as waterboarding, Captured illuminates its historical time yet has immediate relevance for our
own. The miserable landscape that functions as a rather convincing North
Korea is in fact near Chobham in Surrey.
Film details
Productieland
United Kingdom
Jaar
1959
Festivaleditie
IFFR 2019
Lengte
64'
Medium/Formaat
File
Taal
English
Première status
None
Director
John Krish
Screenplay
John Krish
Sales / World rights holder
Imperial War Museum
Producer
Hindle Edgar
Production company
World Wide Pictures
Cinematography
Michael Reed
Editing
Arthur Stevens
Sound design
Peter Gilpin
Principal cast
Wilfrid Brambell, Ray Brooks, Alan Dobie, Mark Eden, Anthony Farrar-Hockley, Gerald Flood, Bernard Fox