The Blockhouse
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge stores of food, but not enough candles. The slow dying of the light parallels their increasing boredom, illness, and jealousy during their entrapment. Based on the Novel 'Le Blockhaus' by Jean Paul Clebert
When the Whales Came
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.
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Clive Rees
Director
Nicholas Jones
as
Kramer
Alfred Lynch
as
Larshen
Peter Sellers
as
Rouquet
Helen Mirren
as
Clemmie Jenkins
David Threlfall
as
Jack Jenkins
John Hallam
as
Treve Pender
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