Published 21:11 IST, February 26th 2021
Dame Judi Dench's WW2-era period film 'Six Minutes To Midnight' coming soon to theatres
Academy Award winner Judi Dench has acted in a film based on real events during World War 2 set in a Anglo-German private finishing school in Britain.
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Acclaimed actor Judi Dench has played a school governess of a finishing school for daughters and goddaughters of German elite from the Nazi Party in the movie Six Minutes to Midnight. PVR cinemas has acquired the theatrical exhibition rights in Indian territory to show award-winning films such as Minari, Six Minutes to Midnight, and many more, as a strategic response in post-Covid times. The trailer of Six Minutes to Midnight showed it is going to be a thriller with social & cultural undertones and overtones.
About the movie
The trailer has just been released. Six Minutes to midnight is to be released theatrically by IFC Films on March 26 this year. This film is going to be directed by Andy Goddard who has earlier worked on acclaimed series like Downton Abby, Altered Carbon to name a few. This film is going to be a multi-starrer. Apart from Judi Dench, this film is going to have stand-up comedian Eddie Izzard playing as a faculty member Thomas Miller in the finishing school, swiss actor Carla Juri who had earlier worked in Blade Runner 2049 will play one of the german students with nazi affiliations in the finishing school. In this film, acclaimed actors James D'Arcy Jim Broadbent are given crucial roles of British military & espionage personnel. The music is given by German composer Marc Streitenfeld, who has worked on films like American Gangster, Body of Lies, The Grey, Prometheus, Poltergeist, and many more is a frequent collaborator of the famous Sir Ridley Scott. The principal photography took place in the United Kingdom.
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Judi Dench has recently starred in the comedy film directed by Edward Hall, Blithe Spirit. Eddie Izzard has also starred in the comedy film directed by Nisha Ganatra and written by Flora Greeson. But actor Carla Juri is acting in an upcoming experimental film Walking to Paris, in which the narrative is based on an 18 months journey through Europe, by Constantin Brâncuși, at the beginning of the 20th century. It is not a biography but a fiction imagined from real-life events.
21:11 IST, February 26th 2021