"Passport to Pimlico" - British films 1945-1960

Kino Rex is having a retrospective of British films from 1945 to 1960 called Great Expectations.

For details see: https://www.rexbern.ch/filmreihen/great-expectations

Meeting time allows us 15 minutes before the film starts to find each other - please be on time so we can get seats together. In English with English subtitles.

Note: Tonight's film has an introduction from Josephine Botting, curator, 20th century fiction at the British Film Institute.

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Tonight's movie, from Wikipedia: Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 British comedy film made by Ealing Studios and starring Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford and Hermione Baddeley. It was directed by Henry Cornelius and written by T. E. B. Clarke. The story concerns the unearthing of treasure and documents that lead to a small part of Pimlico to be declared a legal part of the House of Burgundy, and therefore exempt from the post-war rationing or other bureaucratic restrictions in Britain.

Passport to Pimlico was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best British Film and the Academy Award for Writing (Story and Screenplay). There have since been two BBC Radio adaptations: the first in 1952, the second in 1996.