简介: The main story is set in a British Military Intelligence Office in Whitehall during 1956, where a small group of foreign affairs analysts find their quiet existence disrupted by the Suez Crisis. Ewan McGregor plays Mick Hopper, who is doing his national service as an interpreter of Russian documents. Bored with his job, Hopper spends his days creating fantasy daydreams that involve his work colleagues breaking into contemporary hit songs. Louise Germaine plays Sylvia Berry, the blonde wife of the violent Corporal Pete Berry (Douglas Henshall). Sylvia is an object of desire for Mick's fellow clerk Private Francis Francis and a middle-aged pipe-organist named Harold Atterbow (Roy Hudd). Unlike the street-wise Hopper, Francis is a clumsy Welsh intellectual whose academic career has been interrupted by his army call up. The appearance of the bookish niece of a seconded American officer enables the two conscripts to pair off with suitable partners, after initial mismatching. Some of the side themes include the influence of American rock and roll on English society, the gulf between the senior analysts, who are regular army officers, and the conscripted other ranks, the work of Russian playwright Chekhov, and the appreciation of opulent theatre pipe organs. The unusual context — a military culture transplanted into a civil service style office environment — reflects Potter's own national service during the 1950s. While this piece has the form of a romantic comedy, unlike the less conventional works of Dennis Potter's middle period, it is not without graphic sex and violence, as well as Potter's characteristic flashes of dreamlike imagery. The centrepiece of this production is the surreal musical sequence set to the song In a Persian Market.
吉姆·罗斯·斯图尔特,贝内黛塔·波尔卡罗利,戴娃·卡索,萨尔·南尼,保罗·卡拉布雷西,弗朗西斯科·科勒拉,Greta Esposito,科拉多·因韦尔尼齐,阿斯特丽德·米洛尼,Marcus Marcelli,Mario Patanè,Francesco Giulio Cerilli,罗曼诺·雷吉亚尼,Diana Dell'Erba,西蒙娜·迪斯特法诺,Luigi Patti,Chiara Di Giovanni
利奥·伍德尔,昆泰莎·斯文戴尔,斯蒂芬·瑞,大卫·莫瑞瑟,玛莎·普林顿,杰森·弗莱明,西瑟·巴比特·科努德森,哈里·劳埃德,阿里·苏莱曼,弗拉·菲,约瑟夫·迈德尔,马努夫·提亚拉,瑟吉·诺普科,汤姆·伯恩,Ian Bouillion,Alison Lintott,黛西·沃特斯通,索菲娅·巴克莱,提姆·法拉第,鲁德·哈利特,鲁德·哈利特 Rod Hallett