Picture for event

Will be shown with closed captions for those who are deaf and hard of hearing.

WHEN THE WIND BLOWS

Jimmy T Murakami, 1986, UK, 85mins, Cert: PG

-
Thu 6 November // 19:30 / Cinema

Tickets: £7/5/3/0

Book tickets

Please arrive on ​the listed time as the Star and Shadow does not show adverts or trailers. Doors are open 30 minutes before the listed times.

Based on Raymond Briggs' book. Jim (Sir John Mills) and Hilda (Dame Peggy Ashcroft), a couples who live in the countryside, believe that the Government will always know what it is doing. However, the world is fast heading for World War III between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Jim prepares for it by building a shelter using Goverment pamphlets. However, both of them still believe that the war will be fought like World War II, the war will be over by christmas, and they can't fully understand that the war will be fought with nuclear weapons. All too soon, war breaks out and Jim and Hilda survive a nuclear blast.

While Mick Jackson's telemovie Threads remains the screen's most potent account of mass panic on apocalypse day, this British to-the-frame adaptation of Raymond Briggs' graphic novella is unquestionably the most humane.

Will be shown with closed captions for those who are deaf and hard of hearing.

Book now