Shuttlecock
A Feature film of
Produced by
Production year1992
Runtime1 h 22 min
Synopsis
1962. Major James Prentis V.C., a war hero now living in Portugal, holds a party to celebrate the publication of his memoirs entitled "Shuttlecock". Major Prentis's son John, has travelled out specially from London for the occasion. Inexplicably Major James Prentis suffers a nervous breakdown. suddenly John finds himself forced to commit his father to an asylum, run by an old war comrade - Dr Quinn. John returns to London - to his wife and their two sons. He resumes his mundane job as a Scotland Yard archivist, obsessed by the need to find the key to his behavior, he begins to read "Shuttlecock"...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (6)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Km films, Productions Belles Rives
- Foreign production company : Film Four Channel
- Associate producer : Les Films Christian Ardan
- Film exports/foreign sales : The Bureau Sales
Full credits (5)
- Screenwriter : Tim Rose Price
- Director of Photography : Denis Lenoir
- Music Composer : Jan Garbarek
- Editor : John Costelloe
- Costume designer : Anne de Laugardière
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : Great Britain, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Great Britain, France)
