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The British film-making partnership of Michael Powell (1905–1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)—together often known as The Archers, the name of their production company—made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s.
A well-made actioner, with an impressive cast. Based on the true story of a daring British raid on Crete in World War II, undercover commando troops and Cretan partisans, led by Dirk Bogarde as the freebooting Major Paddy Leigh-Fermor.
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- 'A Matter of Life and Death' (1946) An otherworldly love story. Royal Air Force pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) miraculously survives a plane crash but is meant to die due to a celestial error.
- 'The Red Shoes' (1948) A fantastical extravaganza. This fantastical drama centers on ballerina Victoria Page (Moira Shearer), who becomes the protegé of the demanding and charismatic ballet impresario Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook).
- 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' (1943) A study of one man and his society. This sweeping war movie chronicles the life of Clive Candy (Roger Livesey), a British officer whose military career spans from the Boer War to World War II.
- 'Black Narcissus' (1947) A drama of faith and desire. The tension between the sacred and the profane is palpable in this psychological drama. The story follows a group of nuns, led by Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr), who establish a convent in the Himalayas.
“A Canterbury Tale” is a 1944 film directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, often referred to as “The Archers”. The film is a unique and innovative exploration of life in rural England during World War II, and it tells the story of three people who are brought together by chance in the town of Canterbury.
The Archers is a British radio soap opera currently broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the corporation's main spoken-word channel. Broadcast since 1951, it was famously billed as "an everyday story of country folk" and is now promoted as "a contemporary drama in a rural setting".
BBC Oral History Collection, November 1962. Real rural affairs. The writers of Dick Barton were in fact brought over to tackle the scripts, but there was also an insistence that real life rural...
Sep 6, 2021 · The Archers’ two films immediately following Blimp, the bucolic English hymn A Canterbury Tale (1944) and romantic comedy I Know Where I’m Going! (1945), were both shot by monochrome specialist Erwin Hillier.
