Resurrected (1989)

Recommended

UK

Feature Film

Director: Paul Greengrass

Writer: Martin Allen

Cinematographer: Ivan Strasburg

Composer: John Keane

Cast: David Thewlis, Tom Bell, Rita Tushingham, David Thewlis, Rudi Davies, Michael Pollitt, Christopher Fulford, Ewan Stewart, David Lonsdale

Seven weeks after disappearing during the Falkland war, British soldier Kevin Deakin (Thewlis, excellent) returns from the dead, claiming insomnia, and returns to England and his small Lancashire village a hero; but when the tabloid press begin to insinuate that he was a deserter, his family, friends, and fellow soldiers begin to turn on him, in Greengrass’s painfully authentic feeling examination of the way that people can be so easily swayed by the less conscientious elements of the media. Iain.Stott