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- BFI identifier344978
- Date1989-01-06 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisFilm version of Benjamin Britten's oratorio. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- Subject
- Credits
- Cast
Title
War Requiem (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/DEEC-AE61-5FB7-6EBA-840B-3Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
- Collections
- Scripts / DocumentsScript - Script type: Shooting Script - First Draft - SCR-2586
Script - Script type: Dialogue Script - SCR-2587
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-344978
WAR REQUIEM notebook - Large notebook for WAR REQUIEM (1989) black cover with 'Strange Meeting' by Wilfred Owen pasted on front Labelled 'War Requiem I' containing : - manuscript notes, heavily annotated script and pasted-in items - letter to DJ from Keith Collins (a.k.a Geordie Beast) thanking him for looking after him when he was ill. A colour polaroid of a soldier in mud splattered uniform is attached, no date - post-it reminder of meeting with Lord Olivier and Don Boyd - portrait photograph of Nathaniel Parker - photocopied images of World War I - photocopy of 'Christopher's first sketch' depicting the 'altar' with Tilda Swinton as nurse standing by the body of the soldier, no date - photocopied Polaroids of casting ideas[?] - colour Polaroids of battle scenes; - watercolour sketch by [Christopher Hobbs?] of the duck-boarded trench entitled 'Washing. Set II' - photocopied sketch of men resting in shelter, based on Paul Nash postcard 'Existence' and polaroid of recreated scene from film - photocopy of sketch for hospital and images of nurses - watercolour sketches of 'Charade. Set III' and 'Wall Of Steel. Set VI' - watercolour 'Set IV The Battle' and marked 'C's first ideas for set June '88' - production photographs and Polaroids - watercolour sketches of 'Owen's Bunker', 'The Sleeper. Part of Set II', and 'Power Horseshoe table' - watercolour sketch of 'Caverns of hell - Sleepers', location Camden Lock, nd; - breakdown of set requirements, props, vehicles, actors and extras' no date - newspaper cuttings; - postcard from Julian Firth offering his services on the film, nd [Formerly Jarman II Box 14] - JAR-2-1-14
WAR REQUIEM notebook - Large notebook for WAR REQUIEM (GB,1989) black cover with gold painted panel labelled 'War Requiem II'/ First page marked 'Second Book War Requiem. Nov 88' notebook contains: - oval portrait photograph of young soldier marked 'photo with no name' - typescript excerpts from diary February - November 1988 - manuscript notes - script extracts - notes and letter from 'Geordie Beast' [Keith Collins] - press kit - newspaper cuttings - invitation to 'Secret Screening' at The Cannon Cinema, Shaftesbury Avenue, 21 December 1989 - publicity handout - small poster - postcard of Wilfred Owen to DJ from Thomas [?] congratulating him on the film, 21 December 1988 - colour photographs marked 'Annie's [Lapaz] photos of art dept' Lapaz was scenic artist on the film - letter to DJ from Don Boyd congratulating him on the film and expressing a wish they can work together again, 23 December 1988 - group photograph of cast and crew on the set marked 'Thank you Don with love from Derek' 1988-1989 [formerly Jarman II Box 15] - JAR-2-1-15
Small press-sheet held. Information folder held.
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Photograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-759793
Photograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-759794
Photograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-759795
Photograph: transparency - Portrait - Colour - bfi-00m-rvo
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- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes October 2013
BFI Southbank Programme Notes February 2014
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- War Requiem
Work - 344978 - 1989-01-06 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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