NEW FILM EXPOSES DIRTY DEEDS IN DARK AGES THANET
A new film to be screened in Broadstairs on Sunday 19th February at 4pm exposes the outrageous scandals and sleaze of life in Thanet in the Dark Ages.
Called “Hengist and Horsa: The Movie”, and made by Thanet-based IMS Productions, the film is based on a much talked-about live performance which played to packed audiences in Broadstairs in 2004.
Producer Norman Thomas said: “The play was so popular, we decided we just had to show it to a wider audience.”
The film is set in 449 AD with the coming to Thanet of the forefathers of the English nation, the legendary Hengist and Horsa.
In the film Hengist and Horsa are a couple of singing refugees rather than the fearsome warlords of legend, and they become entangled in the dodgy deals and power politics of the time.
Though set in the ancient past there are lots of parallels with the modern day. There’s a preening British king with a striking resemblance to our own prime minister and a born-again Roman Emperor fighting a war on barbarism in a way highly reminiscent of the present US president.
Behind the scenes, a sexy female spin doctor calls the shots, as the film makes the hilarious, but entirely feasible case that the English may have first come to Britain not, as previously thought, in the role of invaders but as penniless asylum seekers.
The play stars Ramsgate-based actress Lisa Payne and well-known Broadstairs performers Steven Todd and Sarah Hale.
The producers, Thanet-based IMS Productions, are launching the film at the Windsor Cinema in Broadstairs in aid of the “Save Our Cinema” fund – set up to ensure the Windsor remains a cinema. Said Mr Thomas: “It only seems right and fitting that a film about historic events in Thanet should do its bit to help keep one of our historic cinemas showing films.”
The film will be shown in the Windsor Cinema, Broadstairs at 4pm on Sunday 19th February. |
