The Trap

Fällan

Peter Watkins’ sensitivity to drama and individual human experience is vividly illustrated in an end-of-the-millennium story set in a nuclear bunker.

  • Director

    Peter Watkins

  • With

    Karl Lennart Sandquist, Bo Melander, Anita Kronvei

  • Sweden 1975. 65min

  • Digital

  • English subtitles

+ Polly II: Plan for a Revolution in Docklands

UK 2006. Director Blaise Kirschner. 30min. Digital

Total running time 95min

Taking the personal and the political into bleak environs, Watkins’ futuristic chamber piece sees an enforced family reunion unfurl in an underground shelter next to a nuclear waste station. It’s an unsettling portrait of a near future. The film screens with a short that sees pirates and social outcasts fight property developers in a flooded future East London.

William Fowler