"Mandy" - 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.

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Tonight's movie, from Wikipedia: Mandy is a 1952 British drama film about a family's struggle to give their deaf daughter a better life. It was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and is based on the novel The Day Is Ours by Hilda Lewis. It stars Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins and Terence Morgan, and features the first film appearance by Jane Asher.

A high proportion of the film looks at educational methods for deaf people in the 1950s and focuses on oralism, a now controversial approach which relies on teaching the child to speak and lipread and discourages sign language.

The film was nominated for six BAFTA awards at the 1953 British Academy Film Awards ceremony, but did not win any. Alexander Mackendrick was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 1952 Venice Film Festival for his direction, and the film was nominated for the Golden Lion at the same festival.