Description: A fictionalized commentary on the folly of war, is set in Europe between the last five days of the Second World War and a few days after the end of hostilities.
Director: Ian Woodward
Country: United Kingdom
Category: Trailer
Runtime: 00:02:51
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TOO MANY GHOSTS, a fictionalized commentary on the folly of war, is set in Europe between the last five days of the Second World War and a few days after the end of hostilities. Joe Franklin, a young corporal in Britain’s illustrious 350-year-old East Yorkshire Regiment, is reminiscing about the horrors of war and the mental scars it inflicts on the physically and mentally injured. He is filled with remorse at the memories of those very close to his heart who have perished. Many are missing but some have been returned home to be buried in towns and villages up and down the British Isles. Joe’s story is told against the musical backdrop of England’s great national composer, Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Master of the King’s Musick, with poetry by some of the country’s great war poets, including Rupert Brooke and Laurence Binyon, and specially-composed verse by the film-maker.
DIRECTOR:
English filmmaker Ian Woodward was formerly a show-business correspondent for Britain’s national media and appeared regularly on the BBC as presenter (among others) of Radio 2’s Jazz in Britain contributor to Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. He is the author of more than 30 books), published in 15 languages (including Arabic and Japanese), among them worldwide best-selling biographies of Hollywood stars Audrey Hepburn and Glenda Jackson. Hollywood director John Landis based An American Werewolf in London on Ian Woodward’s international best-seller The Werewolf Delusion. His Audrey Hepburn biography (never out of print since first published) spawned the musical Fair Lady of the Screen, composed by Bee Gees keyboardist Rudi Dobson and released on CD by President Records. His last ten films – Tchaikovsky in Love, The Magic Bluebell Wood, I Love You Truly, I’ll Walk with God, Adoration: A Natural History, Love Song: The Triumph and Tragedy of Tchaikovsky, The Red Rose, TOO MANY GHOSTS, Silly Robin, and From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields – have won nearly 500 international awards and been screened on TV, in theatres and open-air cinemas across the United States, Australia and throughout Europe: 44 countries in all. He lives with wife Zenka near London in the historical village of Kings Langley.
NEWS STORY:
The International Film Festival “Love a Man” takes place in Oswiecim (better known under its WW2 German name Auschwitz), in Poland, which means the festival’s title is not implying what you might otherwise have thought. It deals with the way people deal with other people. Only one British film was selected for screening, Ian Woodward’s TOO MANY GHOSTS. This film has had success at several festivals and is being shown 13 times between 5 December and 24 February at the Imperial War Museum in London. Ian commented: “Never in a million years, when I was making the film, did I expect that audiences would be watching it in both a London war museum and in the former Auschwitz. The thought of it is quite spine-numbing.”
CAST, CREW & CREATIVE TEAM CREDITS:
Directed, filmed and edited
by IAN WOODWARD
Screenplay
IAN WOODWARD
Music
Sir EDWARD ELGAR
Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major
(“Land of Hope and Glory”)
Sir EDWARD ELGAR
Dream Children
Sir EDWARD ELGAR
“Nimrod” from Enigma Variations
Sir EDWARD ELGAR
Symphony No 1 (1st Movement)
Joe Franklin
PETROS KOUKOULOMATIS
The voice of Albert Franklin
IRVING THOMAS
Parents of Joe and Albert
DAVID SUTHERLAND
MANDY CARR
(courtesy of Abbots Langley Gilbert & Sullivan Society)
Child of Hope
EVA WOODWARD
Narration and Verse Reading
BETH MAYOH
Location Manager
JOHN CARPOZI
Costumes and Design
DAISY OGILVY
Wardrobe
ZENKA WOODWARD
Carpenter
HARRY MALTIN
Technical Associate
PHILIP WOODWARD
Hair and Make-up
HEIDI SCHEUER
DVD Cover Design
STEFANIE WOODWARD
After The Festival
