Seaside Special
SEASIDE SPECIAL is a love letter to Brexit Britain: a consciously warm-hearted look at Britain’s only remaining “End-of-the-Pier” variety show—far away from London—as the town of Cromer and the cast prepare for the 2019 summer season.
The film portrays a town from a different time, full of quintessentially British types, but which also offers a highly topical outlook: it’s about attitude, craftsmanship, and authenticity. It’s about community and values, about the humor of our British neighbors, their originality, and their quirks—which we, as Europeans, will sorely miss.
Cast
- Olly Day
- Olly Day
Seaside Special
Jens Meurer
- Documentary
- Production Country / Year
- Germany 2021
- Language
- engl. OF m. dt. UT
- Format
- 16 mm print, Color, 91min
1.85:1, Discrete 5.1
Director & Crew
Jens Meurer
Born in Nuremberg. Worked as a regional journalist and photographer at the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa. Studied at Oxford University, at the Sciences Po University in Paris, and at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Active as director and producer.
Filmography
| 1989 | No parking, no standing, no kidding | Kurzfilm | |
| Harlem – a dream deferred | Kurzfilm | ||
| 1992 | Beyond the kremlin walls | Serie | |
| 1993 | Brudermord im Kaukasus | Fernsehdokumentarfilm | |
| 1994 | Kraftwerk der leidenschaft / passion factory | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 1995 | Ukraine – land an der grenze | Dokumentar-Serie | |
| 1996 | Egoli: my South African home movie | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 1998 | Jeckes | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 1999 | Public enemy | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 2000 | Jeckes 7 | TV-Portraitreihe | |
| 2019 | Zauberberg / magic mountain | Fernsehfilm | |
| 2020 | An impossible project | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 2021 | Seaside special | Dokumentarfilm | 2021 |
“There is a reason I called SEASIDE SPECIAL 'a love letter' and not just 'a film by…,' and that reason is: I am upset. As a European with close ties to Britain who also believes in 'Europe,' I feel like a jilted lover. I am just angry and frustrated by the whole crazy Brexit thing. And I’ve had enough of idiotic populism and division politics. I had to do something about it. And that something became a very personal documentary film about… everything I love about Britain. SEASIDE SPECIAL became my rejoinder. Not a political documentary, but instead a defiantly convivial, colorful, passionate missive by a fellow European – with full-on singing and dancing. My reaction to the sense of community I experienced in Cromer, the very antidote to populism. It’s all about things being better together.”
- Director of Photography
- Torsten Lippstock
- Bernd Fischer
- Editor
- Matthieu Jamet
