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When the Wind Blows

Name: When the Wind Blows
Director: Jimmy T. Murakami
Genre: Animation, War, Drama
Released: 1986
Rating: 7.5
Cast: John Mills, Peggy Ashcroft, Robin Houston, James Russell, David Dundas

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.

1986 · Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami · 84 min · Animation · War · Drama · 11 frames

Tagline

...it's no fairy tale.

Crew

Screenplay: Raymond Briggs
Edited by: John Cary, Taylor Grant
Music: Roger Waters
Produced by: John Coates

Cast

John Mills as Jim Bloggs (voice)
Peggy Ashcroft as Hilda Bloggs (voice)
Robin Houston as Radio Announcer (voice)
James Russell as Russian submariner (voice)
David Dundas as Additional Voices (voice)
Matt Irving as Additional Voices (voice)
Bernard Montgomery as Self (archive footage)
Harry S. Truman as Self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin as Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill as Self (archive footage)

Production

Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Studios: Penguin Books, TVC London, Meltdown Productions, National Film Finance Corporation
Box office: $5,274
Themes: husband wife relationship, countryside, nuclear war, england, world war ii, based on comic, based on graphic novel, nuclear fallout, adult animation, isolated house

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