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DISTANT VOICES STILL LIVES
(1988)
List of alternative names
- DISTANT VOICES
- ENTFERNTE STIMMEN - STILLEBEN
- STILL LIVES
- Copyright date
- 1988
- Production start date
- 09/1985
- Production end date
- 10/1987
Production countries
- Great Britain
- German Federal Republic
- Notes
- Film made with backing of television companies, intended as both a TV film and a theatrical one.
Library Synopsis
Autobiographical film of working class life in Liverpool, dealing with the Davies family. The marriage of their eldest child and the funeral of their father both evoke memories of the family's past, including their lives through the war years.
Top five credits
- Directed by
- DAVIES, Terence
- ©
- DAVIES, Terence
- Production Company/Presents
- British Film Institute Production Board
- In association with
- Channel Four
- In association with
- Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
Top five cast
- Mrs Davies, the mother
- DOWIE, Freda
- Tommy Davies, the father
- POSTLETHWAITE, Pete
- Eileen
- WALSH, Angela
- Tony
- WILLIAMS, Dean
- Maisie
- ASHBOURNE, Lorraine