The War Game

+ In Conversation with Professor Louis Lemkow, Mai Zetterling’s son

Mai Zetterling’s directorial debut won the Golden Lion for best short fiction at the 1963 Venice Film Festival.

Copyright: Swedish Film Institute

  • Director

    Mai Zetterling

  • With

    Ian Ellis, Joseph Robinson

  • UK 1962. 15min. Total running time 90min

  • Digital 4K (restoration)

  • Certificate

    15

In a stark apartment building, two children playfully fight over a gun. As the tussle escalates from play to something more serious, their fight takes them higher up the building where the intensity of their conflict is mirrored by the increasing danger of their surroundings. Zetterling’s award-winning short film will be followed by a conversation with Professor Lemkow, Professor of Environmental Sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, who will talk about his mother’s life and work.

Tickets £6.50.