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by simon antoine
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posted Jan 15, 2007
Really good. I like your take on the 2nd world war gesture between the germans and english. v.good |
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Published 20 Oct 06
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synopsis
It’s Christmas Eve, Rory crosses the no man's land between his two homes. Behind his back and over his head, his divorced parents fight. On Christmas day Rory and his dad play football in the field. His mum joins in. For a brief shining moment the family are reunited.
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My fantastic cinematographer Mike Ealy had just got back from shooting Touching The Void so didn't find the cold too much of a problem.The famous story of the German and British troops in the first world war playing football on Christmas day in no man's land has always interested me. It tends to be told as a story about the human spirit overcoming the horrors of war, but there's a bleaker and more truthful way to think about it. After the football, both sides went back to killing each other. And kept on killing each other without a break for four more years - after 1914 there were no more Christmas football matches in no man's land."
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