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Brassed Off
15

Why watch?

“A charming and sadly all too relevant, British cinema classic.”

Robb Barham,
Operations & Programme Manager

Gloria is sent to assess Grimley Colliery in her former hometown, but the miners are now deciding whether to fight to keep the pit. The future of the town and its brass band looks bleak.

Drama • British • Political

Although the arrival of flugelhorn player Gloria injects some life into the Grimley Colliery Brass Band, and passionate bandleader Danny continues to exhort them to continue in the national competition, alliances, personal frictions and financial pressures soon take their toll.

Still both charming and relevant, Brassed Off is set ten years after the year-long strike in 1984–85 by the National Union of Mineworkers in Britain. Before the privatisation of British Coal, a wave of pit closures took place. Depleted of resources and in debt following the labour militancy of 1984–85, many of the miners had been in debt ever since the year-long strike and were prepared to take redundancy money whilst it was on offer.

The director of Brassed Off, Mark Herman, will be in conversation at this special event to launch our reRUN strand.

Details

Duration

1hr 47mins

Director

Mark Herman

Distributor

Park Circus (PA0073)

Featuring

Pete Postlethwaite • Tara Fitzgerald • Ewan McGregor

Year

1996

Country of origin

Language

English

Strobe lighting

Content guidance

Suicide/self-harm

“A remarkable drama about the impact on a community when its economic heart, common focal point, and way of life is ripped out; and the finest film about a colliery band ever made. [...] Like Danny’s speech at the Royal Albert Hall, the film is honest, poignant and powerful. Twenty years on, its message is still all too relevant. And the music is bloody great, by the way.”
Mark Butler, The i

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