It Happened Here (1964)
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67% of critics liked it
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57% of users liked it
(934 ratings)
Fledgling filmmaker (and future film historian) Kevin Brownlow worked in collaboration with Andrew Mollo for nearly ten years to create It Happened Here. Shot on 16-millimeter stock in stark quasi-documentary fashion, the film is predicated on the postulation that Germany had invaded--and… More Fledgling filmmaker (and future film historian) Kevin Brownlow worked in collaboration with Andrew Mollo for nearly ten years to create It Happened Here. Shot on 16-millimeter stock in stark quasi-documentary fashion, the film is predicated on the postulation that Germany had invaded--and defeated--England in World War II. Brownlow and Mollo's vision of this nightmarish world is perfect in every detail, right down to the German road signs in rural Britain. The plotline is carried by Pauline Murray, playing a nurse who uncovers Nazi atrocities perpetrated on Polish and Russian hospital patients. Begun in 1957 when Brownlow was an 18-year-old editing apprentice, It Happened Here was finally completed in 1964, and released theatrically two years later. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
- Written By
- Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Classics, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 8, 1999 Wide
- Studio
- Lopert Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Ian Berriman, SFX Magazine
A chilling and thought-provoking film because it resists the clichés of Hollywood war movies, where good and evil are often clearly delineated.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The directors are serious students of the past, and their aim is re-create a fictional past.
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Cast
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Pauline Murray
as Pauline
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Sebastian Shaw
as Dr. Richard Fletcher
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Nicolette Bernard
as IA Woman Commandant
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Bart Allison
as Skipworth
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Stella Kemball
as Nurse Drayton
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Fiona Leland
as Helen Fletcher
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Reginald Marsh
as IA Medical Officer
- Christopher Bell
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Carol James
as IA Girl
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Michael Mellinger
as Announcer
- Tony Oliver
- Andrew Mollo
- Peter Watkins
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Honor Fehrson
as Honor Hutton
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Miles Halliwell
as IA Political Lecturer
- George R. Parker
- Richard Golding
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John Herrington
as Dr. Westerman
- Alvar Liddell
- John Snagge
- Frank Phillips
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Frank Bennett
as IA Political Leader
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Bill Thomas
as IA Group Leader
- Pat Sullivan
- Derek Milburn
- Michael Passmore
- Nicholas Moore
- Peter Dineley
- Rex Collett
