Film Review: Resistance
In 1964 Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo completed, after seven years work and on a budget of £7,000, one of the most extraordinary pictures ever made in this country. In It Happened Here, they imagined and created in considerable detail a Britain that had been occupied by the Nazis in 1940. Brownlow later wrote How It Happened Here, a riveting account of its production. Based on a novel by Owen Sheers, Resistance turns on the strategically and logistically improbable notion that D-Day failed in 1944, the Germans counter-attacked, and Britain became part of the Nazi empire. The setting is a remote Welsh valley taken over by a German company tasked with a curious secret mission, and a predictable, somewhat muffled story of exchanges with the natives, resistance and collaboration ensues. Not bad, but it falls far short of It Happened Here.
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