Experience the beautiful world of Powell & Pressburger

Dive into the cinematic universe of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger whose creative partnership in the 1940s created some of the most stylistically ambitious, thematically rich, subversive, and sensual British films ever made.

About the film
Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, a British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

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★★★★★ Utterly unique, enduringly rich and strange romantic fantasia Guardian

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