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When the Wind Blows poster

When the Wind Blows

"...it's no fairy tale."

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1988 · 1h 24m
Animation, Drama, War
Starring John Mills · Peggy Ashcroft · David Dundas
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With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.

Theatrical
Mar 11, 1988
Box Office
$5K
Director
Jimmy T. Murakami
Writer
Raymond Briggs
Producers
John Coates, Iain Harvey
Music
Roger Waters
Studio
Penguin Books, TVC London, Meltdown Productions, National Film Finance Corporation, Film Four International
Keywords
england countryside nuclear war husband wife relationship world war ii based on comic based on graphic novel nuclear fallout adult animation isolated house radiation sickness bomb shelter depressing
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Cast

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J
John Mills
Jim Bloggs (voice)
P
Peggy Ashcroft
Hilda Bloggs (voice)
D
David Dundas
Additional Voices (voice)
B
Bernard Montgomery
Self (archive footage)
H
Harry S. Truman
Self (archive footage)
J
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
W
Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage)

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