Empire of Light
Hilary runs a movie theater by the sea. Once a magnificent movie theater with several screens and a dance hall overlooking the sea, today there is only one screen left, albeit a large one. Hilary and her colleagues are sprucing up the theater for the local premiere of Chariots of Fire. Outside, however, the town is decaying, the number of right-wing extremists is on the rise, and Stephen is regularly harassed by skinheads.
Cast
- Mr. Ellis
- Colin Firth
- Hilary
- Olivia Colman
- Stephen
- Michael Ward
- Norman
- Toby Jones
- Delia
- Tanya Moodie
- Ruby
- Crystal Clarke
Empire of Light
Sam Mendes
- Fiction
- Production Country / Year
- United Kingdom, United States 2022
- Language
- engl. OF m. dt. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 119min
2.39:1, Discrete 5.1
Director & Crew
Sam Mendes
Born in 1965 in Reading/England. Studied at Cambridge University. Was artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse Theatre in London. Active as a director, writer and producer.
Filmography
| 1999 | American Beauty | Spielfilm | |
| 2002 | Road to Perdition | Spielfilm | |
| 2005 | Jarhead | Spielfilm | |
| 2008 | Revolutionary Road | Spielfilm | |
| 2009 | Away We Go | Spielfilm | |
| 2012 | Skyfall | Spielfilm | |
| 2015 | Spectre | Spielfilm | |
| 2019 | 1917 | Spielfilm | |
| 2022 | Empire of Light | Spielfilm | 2022 |
“The story was born in a time of self-examination and reflection. The memories that bubbled to the surface were memories from the early '80s to the present day. They were memories of growing up with a family history of mental illness and memories of my own formative teenage years, shaping my own racial politics during a time of riotous racial politics that felt not dissimilar to some of the things we go through in the world today. All of these things felt both contemporary and current. I hope that when the audience sees the film, it feels like it did then, but also feels like it does now.”
Sam Mendes
- Writer
- Sam Mendes
- Director of Photography
- Roger Deakins
- Editor
- Lee Smith
- Production Designer
- Mark Tildesley
- Sound
- Stuart Wilson
- Music Composer
- Trent Reznor
- Atticus Ross
- Producer
- Sam Mendes
- Pippa Harris
