Passchendaele Opening in London - September 4th
Passchendaele opening at
The Odeon Panton Street London W1
on 4th September 2009.
The movie that reached out to Canadians back home is crossing the Atlantic.
‘Passchendaele’, the multi-award winning Canadian movie made in honour of the country’s 16,000 soldiers who were killed or wounded in one of the bloodiest and most horrific conflicts of World War 1, has been acquired for UK distribution by High Fliers Films.
Directed and written by Paul Gross, ‘Passchendaele’ took nearly $850,000 from over 200 screens in its opening weekend when it was released in Canada last year. It went on to hit a final box office total of nearly $5 million which earned it a Golden Reel Award for being the highest-grossing Canadian film of 2008.
At this year’s Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Genie Awards, announced in April, the film was also voted Best Picture and won prizes in the Art Direction, Costume, Sound and Editing categories.
As well as writing and directing, Paul Gross also stars as shell-shocked and badly wounded Sergeant Michael Dunne who is shipped back home and falls for Sarah Mann (Caroline Dhavernas), the nurse who helps him recuperate.
“In Love There Is Only One Rule … Don’t Die”
For further information, full cast & credits
and images etc please contact:
Sara Thom or Richard Robson
at
Media Communications Ltd
020 8998 1517
sara.thom@mediacomms.co.uk or richard.robson@mediacomms.co.uk
