Format:
1 DVD-Video (77 Min.)
,
farbig
Series Statement:
Alan Clarke at the BBC, Volume 1: Dissent
Uniform Title:
Sovereign's company
Content:
Andrew Cantfield and other young recruits enter a military academy and are ready for training. The young recruits are put to the test everything from details such as shoe polishing and shower washing, as well as getting along together in the barracks. But what seems to be a standard fare in militarism is everything but that - with fellow cadets starting arguments, fights breaking out, and very little in terms of camaraderie. Unlike Clarke's previous films which were filled with occasional humor that led to emotional outbursts, "Sovereign’s Company" has very little humor and is more about the breaking point between people. It essentially becomes a war film but without the war. The intensity between the cadets leads to intensely uncomfortable situations, and sometimes leads to terrible violence. The production includes a vast array of at-the-time young actors including Forwood, Clive Francis, Larry Dann, and Oliver Cotton, and Clarke directs the production in the color film format with handheld cameras, rather than the stilted video cameras in his previous production. With it, the intensity of the freeflowing camera movements and in some scenes a documentary-like quality are reproduced. The characters are rather flat compared to the characters in previous Clarke productions, but overall the production’s theme is not about the characters but criticism on class differences, generational expectations, and a change in the youth view of war in a post- WWII and Korean War environment bordering on the increased negative reactions toward the Vietnam War. [dvdcompare.net]
Note:
engl. / UT: engl. für Hörgesch.
In:
The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel [Bonus von VD 19.260], [2016]
Language:
English
Keywords:
DVD-Video
