RED JOAN
by Trevor Nunn
synopsis
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.
| international title: | Red Joan |
| original title: | Red Joan |
| country: | United Kingdom |
| sales agent: | Embankment Films |
| year: | 2018 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Trevor Nunn |
| film run: | 110' |
| release date: | ES 17/04/2019, FI 18/04/2019, UK 19/04/2019, IE 19/04/2019, HU 25/04/2019, PL 26/04/2019, PT 2/05/2019, IT 9/05/2019, NL 9/05/2019 |
| screenplay: | Lindsay Shapero |
| cast: | Sophie Cookson, Judi Dench, Tom Hughes, Stephen Campbell Moore, Laurence Spellman, Tereza Srbova, Stephen Boxer, Kevin Fuller, Stephen Samson, Robin Soans |
| cinematography by: | Zac Nicholson |
| film editing: | Kristina Hetherington |
| art director: | Cristina Casali |
| costumes designer: | Charlotte Walter |
| producer: | David Parfitt |
| co-producer: | Ivan Mactaggart, Alice Dawson |
| executive producer: | Tim Haslam, Hugo Grumbar, Zygi Kamasa, James Atherton, Jan Pace, Kelly E Ashton, Karl Sydow |
| production: | Trademark Films |
| distributor: | Lionsgate, Finnkino, Vértice Cine, Best Film, NOS Audiovisuais, Vision Distribution, Cinéart Netherlands B.V. |
