Threads (1985)
KriegsfilmDramaScience Fiction
Sheffield - eine Industriestadt im Herzen Großbritanniens. Hier schlägt das Herz der britischen Stahlindustrie. Überall rußige Industrieanlagen, qualmende Schlote, verstopfte Straßen zur Rush Hour, eine halbe Million Menschen leben und arbeiten auf engstem Raum, auch das Paar Ruth und Jimmy ist hier zu Hause. Ruth ist schwanger, die beiden schmieden Hochzeitspläne. Da kommen Meldungen von Scharmützeln im Persischen Golf zwischen Amerikanern und Sowjets. Die Lage spitzt sich in den nächsten Wochen weiter zu. Als über der Nordsee die ersten atomaren Explosionen erfolgen, heulen bereits die Sirenen in Sheffield. Eine Stadt gerät in Panik, der Bürgermeisterstab agiert in einem Keller hilflos. Ein großer Atompilz steht am Himmel... Mischung aus Spielfilm und Dokumentation, in der nicht nur die Tage nach der atomaren Katastrophe, sondern vor allem die Langzeitwirkung in drastischen Bildern beschrieben wird.
Der Regisseur: Mick Jackson
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Karen Meagher as Ruth Beckett |
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Reece Dinsdale as Jimmy Kemp |
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David Brierly as Mr. Kemp |
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Rita May as Mrs. Kemp |
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Nicholas Lane as Michael Kemp |
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Jane Hazlegrove as Alison Kemp |
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Henry Moxon as Mr Beckett |
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June Broughton as Mrs Beckett |
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Sylvia Stoker as Granny Beckett |
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Harry Beety as Clive Sutton |
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Ruth Holden as Marjorie Sutton |
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Ashley Barker as Bob |
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Michael O'Hagan as Chief Supt. Hirst |
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Phil Rose as Medical Officer |
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Steve Halliwell as Information Officer |
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Brian Grellis as Accommodation Officer |
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Peter Faulkner as Transport Officer |
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Anthony Collin as Food Officer |
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Michael Ely as Scientific Officer |
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Sharon Baylis as Manpower Officer |
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David Stutt as Works Officer |
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Phil Askham as Mr Stothard |
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Anna Seymour as Mrs Stothard |
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Fiona Rook as Carol Stothard |
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Christine Buckley as Woman in Supermarket |
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Joe Belcher as Shopkeeper |
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David Major as Boy in Supermarket |
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Maggie Ford as Peace Speaker |
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Mike Kay as Trade Unionist |
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Richard Albrecht as Officer at Food Depot |
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Ted Beyer as Policeman |
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Dean Williamson as Policeman |
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Joe Holmes as Mr Langley |
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Andy Fenn-Rodgers as Patrol Officer |
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Graham Hill as Soldier |
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Nigel Collins as Soldier |
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Jerry Ready as Looter |
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Dennis Conlon as Looter |
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Greta Dunn as Woman at Hospital |
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Nat Jackley as Old Man at Graveyard |
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John Livesey as Street Trader |
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Victoria O'Keefe as Jane |
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Lee Daley as Spike |
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Marcus Lund as Gaz |
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Lesley Judd as Newscaster |
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Colin Ward-Lewis as Newscaster |
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Paul Vaughan as Narrator (voice) |
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Ingrid P. Frehley as Woman with dead baby (uncredited) |
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Michael Shale as Man who has leg amputated (uncredited) |
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Anne Sellors as Woman who urinates herself (uncredited) |
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Lee Cambell as Dead Boy Under Gate (uncredited) |
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Jonathan Harston as Survivor on the Moors (uncredited) |
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Patrick Allen as Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited) |
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Ed Bishop as US President (voice) (uncredited) |
| Directing | Mick Jackson | Director |
| Writing | Barry Hines | Writer |
| Production | Mick Jackson | Producer |
| Camera | Andrew Dunn | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Paul Morris | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Donna Bickerstaff | Editor |
| Editing | Jim Latham | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Sally Nieper | Costume Design |
| Art | Christopher Robilliard | Production Design |
| Production | Graham Massey | Executive Producer |
| Production | John Purdie | Executive Producer |
| Production | Peter Wolfes | Associate Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jan Nethercot | Makeup Designer |
| Sound | Graham Ross | Sound Recordist |
| Crew | Peter Kersey | Special Effects |
| Visual Effects | Peter Wragg | Visual Effects |
| Crew | Dorothy Ford | Stunts |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gilly Martin | Costume Supervisor |
| Production | Matthew Kuipers | Production Manager |
| Production | Jacinta Peel | Production Manager |
| Art | Andy Coward | Graphic Designer |
| Sound | Fraser Barber | Boom Operator |
| Visual Effects | Graham Brown | Visual Effects |
| Camera | Dion M. Casey | Camera Trainee |
| Crew | Robert Jay Lifton | Scientific Consultant |
| Crew | Joseph Rotblat | Scientific Consultant |
| Crew | Carl Sagan | Scientific Consultant |
