Information
- BFI identifier335114
- Date1988 (Copyright)
1988-10-14 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom, Federal Republic of Germany
- Production company
- SynopsisAutobiographical film. Memories of growing up as part of a large working-class Catholic family in Liverpool. Centred around the Davies family, key events include the marriage of their eldest child and the funeral of their father both of which evoke memories of the family's past, including life through the war years. (Synopsis)
- Work historyFilm made with backing of television companies, intended as both a TV film and a theatrical one. Filmed in two parts (hence the duplication of some personnel in the credits). 'Distant Voices' filmed September to October 1985, 'Still Lives' filmed September to October 1987. Budget reported as GB 703,000.
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- CreditsDirected by: Terence Davies
©: Terence Davies
Production Company/Presents: British Film Institute Production Board
view all - CastFreda Dowie (Mrs Davies, the mother)
Pete Postlethwaite (Tommy Davies, the father)
Angela Walsh (Eileen)
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Title
Distant Voices Still Lives (Original)
Distant Voices (Working)
Still Lives (Working)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Alternative)
Entfernte Stimmen - Stilleben (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/B8A3-7062-BFA3-5D31-9BC8-ICategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
This work is available to view in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank.
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- Film / Video
- Scripts / Documents
- Posters / DesignsPoster: film - Single Sheet, Landscape, 1017mm X 763mm Poster - PD-6975
Poster: film - Single Sheet, Landscape, 1017mm X 763mm Poster - PD-6976
Poster: film - Single sheet landscape poster - PD-10938
Poster: film - Single sheet landscape poster - PD-10939
Poster: film - Single sheet landscape poster - PD-10940
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-r7r
Photograph: publicity - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-xau
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-t5l
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-rh4
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-rh3
view all - ArticlesFilm Ireland n30 Jul/Aug 1992 - InterviewScreen v32 n2 Summer 1991 - ArticleBroadcast 14 Feb 1986 - Creditsview all
- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes August 2018
BFI Southbank Programme Notes August 2018
BFI Southbank Programme Notes April 2016
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- +Distant Voices Still Lives
Work - 335114 - 1988 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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