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| ONE NIGHT
IN TURIN |
Year: 2010
UK: Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment
Cast: Gary Oldman (narrator)
Director: James Erskine
Country: UK
UK: 97 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains one use of very strong language
UK Release Date: 7 May 2010
UK DVD Release Date: 31 May 2010
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Synopsis
“Gazza cried, and football changed forever…”
Spring 1990
With an unpopular premier and in the midst of the recession, England
is struggling to cope with civil strife, and London’s streets are
being ravaged by poll tax rioters. Meanwhile, the rest of the world
wakes up to a new dawn, the Berlin Wall has fallen, Mandela walks
free from prison, and the Soviet Union is in its death throes. And
to celebrate this new world order, there is Italia '90.
The West Germans are playing for the last time as a divided nation
and arrive as favourites, while reigning champions Argentina are led
by the pantomime villain Maradona. England are the one guest no one
wants to invite, as their football is medieval, their manager
considered a national joke, and their fans are hooligans. Behind
barbed wire fences on the remote island of Sardinia, the players,
managers and fans must overcome their own demons, in order to see
the rebirth of their reputations, of English football and even the
perception of England.
Over the course of six weeks, led by the reinvigorated Bobby Robson
and the mercurial Gascoigne, this small band of brothers overcome
scandal, political intrigue and even the mighty Dutch, to reach a
semi-final in Turin - the home of Juventus football team.
ONE NIGHT IN TURIN is constructed from unseen archive footage and
specially shot imagery by Sundance award-winning cinematographer Lol
Crawley. Set to a sound track includes the Stone Roses, Happy
Mondays and Pavarotti, this film will recreate the mood of 1990,
English football's greatest adventure of foreign soil in the
build-up to this summer's "greatest show on Earth".
Based on bestseller, All Played Out by Pete Davies, the
film is directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker James Erskine.
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