The Last Witness (2018 film)
The Last Witness is a British-Polish thriller film directed by Piotr Szkopiak based on a stage play by Paul Szambowski.
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| Directed by | Piotr Szkopiak |
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| Produced by | Carol Harding |
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| Cinematography | Edward Ames |
| Edited by | Jo-Anne Dixon |
| Music by | Bartosz Chajdecki |
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| Distributed by | Signature Entertainment (United Kingdom)[1] Kino Świat (Poland)[2] |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
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| Language | English |
The film stars Alex Pettyfer, Robert Więckiewicz, Talulah Riley, Michael Gambon, Will Thorp, Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Gwilym Lee.[3] The film was released through video on demand by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment beginning on 5 June 2018.[4]
Plot
A young, ambitious journalist risks love, career and ultimately his life to uncover the true identity of an Eastern European refugee and his connection to the British Government's collusion in the cover up of the Katyn massacre, one of Stalin's most notorious crimes.[5]
Cast
- Alex Pettyfer as Stephen Underwood
- Robert Więckiewicz as Michael Loboda
- Talulah Riley as Jeanette Mitchell
- Michael Gambon as Frank Hamilton
- Will Thorp as Colonel Janusz Pietrowski
- Henry Lloyd-Hughes as Mason Mitchell
- Piotr Stramowski as Andrzej Nowak
- Gwilym Lee as John Underwood
- Charles De'Ath as police sergeant
- Luke de Woolfson as Thomas Derrick
- Michael Byrne as the coroner
- Anita Carey as Joan Caldercott
- Holly Aston as Rose Miller
- Pate Wayre as an RAF Sq. Leader & a patron in the pub
Release
The Last Witness was scheduled to be released in the United States by Momentum Pictures on 29 May 2018.
Trivia
- Some of the cast and crew have been involved with various BBC Birmingham Daytime Dramas, Doctors, Land Girls, Father Brown, WPC 56, The Coroner and Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators which Piotr Szkopiak has directed and some have starred in the episodes he was the casting director.
References
- "The Last Witness (2018)". BBFC. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- "Film #80843: The Last Witness". Lumiere. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- Alex Pettyfer to lead Katyn thriller 'The Last Witness' Retrieved 17 October 2017
- "The Last Witness". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
- "Brit-Polish film about Katyń massacre released". Retrieved 15 September 2019.
External links
- The Last Witness at IMDb
- The Last Witness at AllMovie
- The Last Witness at Rotten Tomatoes
- https://21infantry.co.uk/Filming.html
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