简介： The main story is set in a British Military Intelligence Office in Whitehall during 1956, where a small group of foreign affairs analysts find their quiet existence disrupted by the Suez Crisis. Ewan McGregor plays Mick Hopper, who is doing his national service as an interpreter of Russian documents. Bored with his job, Hopper spends his days creating fantasy daydreams that involve his work colleagues breaking into contemporary hit songs. Louise Germaine plays Sylvia Berry, the blonde wife of the violent Corporal Pete Berry (Douglas Henshall). Sylvia is an object of desire for Mick's fellow clerk Private Francis Francis and a middle-aged pipe-organist named Harold Atterbow (Roy Hudd). Unlike the street-wise Hopper, Francis is a clumsy Welsh intellectual whose academic career has been interrupted by his army call up. The appearance of the bookish niece of a seconded American officer enables the two conscripts to pair off with suitable partners, after initial mismatching. Some of the side themes include the influence of American rock and roll on English society, the gulf between the senior analysts, who are regular army officers, and the conscripted other ranks, the work of Russian playwright Chekhov, and the appreciation of opulent theatre pipe organs. The unusual context — a military culture transplanted into a civil service style office environment — reflects Potter's own national service during the 1950s. While this piece has the form of a romantic comedy, unlike the less conventional works of Dennis Potter's middle period, it is not without graphic sex and violence, as well as Potter's characteristic flashes of dreamlike imagery. The centrepiece of this production is the surreal musical sequence set to the song In a Persian Market.
本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇/盖比·霍夫曼/麦金利·贝尔彻三世/杰夫·赫普内尔/艾米·彭伯顿/唐纳德·萨基·马凯/约翰·道曼/威廉·霍普/亚当·西尔弗/何塞·皮芒道/杰拉德·摩纳科/约阿希姆·乔巴努/Orlando Norman/Stefan Race/格洛里亚·奥比安约/Willem van der Vegt/科莎·恩格勒/鲍比·斯科菲尔德/Katalin Ruzsik/杰夫·里基茨/
杰克·吉伦哈尔/鲁丝·内伽/比尔·坎普/伊丽莎白·玛维尔/彼得·萨斯加德/O·T·法格本/雷娜特·赖因斯夫/蔡斯·英菲尼迪/娜娜·门萨/金斯顿·鲁米·索斯威克/萝贝塔·巴辛/马修·阿兰/Tate Birchmore/詹姆斯·廖/MARS/Peter Lawrence Singer/莉莉·拉贝/泰勒·克拉克/艾琳·阿巴尔卡/格蕾丝·罗/Betsy Soo/海皮·安德森/海皮·安德森/Happy/Anderson/
