PG
1hr 25mins

This haunting hand-drawn Raymond Briggs adaptation imagines a harrowing nuclear winter as seen through the eyes of an ill-prepared elderly couple.


Screening as part of our unmissable Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair programme.

Unfortunately no Audio Description track is available for this feature.
Bleak Week
Jimmy T Murakami
PG
Animation
Contains moderate language and mild horror
English

Jim and Hilda Bloggs are the typical, retired couple in rural England. They drink endless cups of tea and have an unwavering faith in the wisdom of their government.

They understand that a Third World War is imminent between the US and the Soviets. However, they fail to grasp the concept that war will be fought by nuclear means, and what consequences this will have.

With the help of government issued pamphlets Jim builds a shelter to protect the couple, and although they survive a nuclear blast they are completely ignorant to the fact that the radiation from the fall out is killing them. All the time they believe in their government and that, sooner rather than later, everything will be back to the way it was…

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