director:
Colin Finbow
playwright:
Colin Finbow
/
Kiran Garcha
actor:
Chris Chescoe
/
Eric Milliet
/
Ben Clennell
/
Andrew Atkinson
/
Matthew Cormack
…
genre:
Drama
/
Family
region:
United States
/
United Kingdom
language:
English
length: 1h 22m
release date: 1979-11-24
IMDb: tt0343562
Overview
An Indian summer, 1942: "When I was thirteen, all I wanted to be was a hero." A young evacuee's response to the surrounding war-obsessed adult world seems the only one available to him, until he forms 'a particular friendship' with another boy, a Jewish refugee. This threatens the stability of his gang (who also mirror the racist/jingoist attitudes of adulthood), and he is caught in Forster's great liberal crux: your country or your friend?