It Happened Here - The Real London.

It Happened Here, a full length feature movie made by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo in the 1950's when they were merely 18, is arguably the most extraordinary and the best Student or Amateur film ever made. It was done for less than no money, using friends, anything they could beg or borrow, persuasion and charm.
It tells the story of an Irish Nurse looking for work in Britain in 1944, four years after the German invasion.
This is one of my favorite scenes "Now you will see the real London"
An extraordinary film by any accounts

[@bigshot102]

Thank you for posting this. I've been an admirer of Kevin Brownlow since I read his book in the late 60s (on the making of It Happened Here). In fact, it was that book that inspired me to begin my life of filmmaking. Mr. Brownlow was never out of my mind when I was shooting Blood and Honour. Sadly, I've never been able to find the film and have never seen it in its entirety. Thanks again!

[@Ballinalower]

OMG! I have only just seen this comment. Blood And Honor was one of the best TV series ever made about Hitler's Germany and the indoctrination of youth. I still remember much of it, especially the moving moment when the anti-Nazi dad slaps his son who has joined the HJ and just said that the Fuehrer says I don't need your permission. Then the Dad breaks down, turns to his wife and in considerable distress says "I never hit him before. And he is not even crying!" And am I imagining it or did the boy say "The Fuehrer says German boys do not cry." I rate that scene one of the most moving in cinema history.

[@JackSardonic]

Ironically more English than the London of today.

[@irminmitnacht6184]

Of course. Germas fought the Bolsheviks who now tear our asses. Thx J Churchill and the other allies.

[@stanarian5238]

@@irminmitnacht6184 If only we had Mosley

[@c3aloha]

@@irminmitnacht6184 well you can have Putin now.

[@pertuk]

no drill, no grime, no moped gangs, no Adhans, sounds great

[@MrSlitskirts]

A great movie exploring a "what if". Regarding the nurse the movie shows how she is constantly tested as to whether to collaborate who help resisters. It gives you an idea of what it was like for Euro countries where some sided and some didn't.

[@andreritter3828]

What a wonderful world it would be.

[@Ballinalower]

Wenn Sie das glauben, wissen Sie nichts über die Geschichte und wie schrecklich das Leben im Nationalsozialismus selbst für die meisten Deutschen war

[@Scallycowell]

You’d hate it, they’d force you to be productive and lose weight. No more shitposting and Hot Pockets for you, son.

[@Ballinalower]

@bigshot102 I bought the DVD about a year ago through Amazon. It might be worth checking with them.

[@agwrr71productions79]

What is the name of the first march?

[@Ballinalower]

Preußens Gloria, Armeemarschsammlung II, 240, is a well-known military march of the 19th century, composed by Johann Gottfried Piefke (1817-1884).[1][2]

[@SterileNeutrino]

I'm here because ... "British lawmakers cheered a delegation of the notorious Azov Ukrainian military unit at a roundtable in Parliament on Wednesday, 2024-05-22, while former Prime Minister Boris Johnson called them “heroes.”".

[@Ballinalower]

Surely not. How can they be that stupid after the Canadian parliament did exactly the same thing on 22nd September 2023? Trudeau led a standing ovation in parliament for a former member of the Ukrainian SS. The Speaker took the fall for Trudeau and had to resign. The British Parliament had that precedent, which makes them even bigger idiots.

[@SterileNeutrino]

@@Ballinalower Western politicians have been a continual letdown of groupthink and sheer incompetence, served with malignant narcissism lately and it's getting worse. Why are UK pols are even interested in the War for NATO expansion except for a tradition of hating on the czar since at least the Crimean War. Very neocon.

[@Ballinalower]

@MrSlitskirts I think that was one of the intentions of the film makers. Of course it also happens nopwadays in less dramatic ways. Politicians follow the party line instead of standing up for what is right, us urdinary folks toady to ther boss and pretend to like people we can't stand if they have authority over us. It takes extraordinary courage to stand up for what is right even if all that is at stake is one's job. When it's your life, as it often was in Europe at the time.

[@bigshot102]

@Ballinalower You might enjoy my other channel Oldtimecalypso. I grew up in Trinidad on the oilfields in the 1950s and have posted endless 8mm movies of the colony at that time. You might enjoy them.

[@mrmrsmsmisscloud7512]

Which ones are the Krouts and which are the Poms?