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Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End

Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End

20119.01h 15m

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A fascinating and absorbing documentary about the making of Jerzy Skolimowski's cult favourite, DEEP END, which was shot in 1970 as a US-German co-production on location in London and Munich. The film's two stars, Jane Asher and John Moulder-Brown, 23 and 17 years of age at the time respectively, meet for the first time in 40 years and discuss their on-screen and off-screen relationship in candid detail, while director/writer Skolimowski chronicles the production history from the writing of the script to the film's acclaimed first showing at the Venice Film Festival. Director of photography Charly Steinberger revisits some of the original locations and explains how he managed to shoot almost the entire film with a hand-held camera. Also on board are production designer Anthony Pratt, editor Barrie Vince, and actor Christopher Sandford, each of whom contributes his own version of how DEEP END was part of the sixties' "swinging London"; and at the same time tilted it on its head.

Directed by Robert Fischer
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Jane Asher

Jane Asher

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John Moulder-Brown

John Moulder-Brown

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Jerzy Skolimowski

Jerzy Skolimowski

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Christopher Sandford

Christopher Sandford

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Anthony Pratt

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Charly Steinberger

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Barrie Vince

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About Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End

Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End is a documentary film released in 2011. Directed by Robert Fischer, it stars Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Jerzy Skolimowski. A fascinating and absorbing documentary about the making of Jerzy Skolimowski's cult favourite, DEEP END, which was shot in 1970 as a US-German co-production on location in London and Munich. The film's two stars, Jane Asher and John Moulder-Brown, 23 and 17 years of age at the time respectively, meet for the first time in 40 years and discuss their on-screen and off-screen relationship in candid detail, while director/writer Skolimowski chronicles the production history from the writing of the script to the film's acclaimed first showing at the Venice Film Festival. Director of photography Charly Steinberger revisits some of the original locations and explains how he managed to shoot almost the entire film with a hand-held camera. Also on board are production designer Anthony Pratt, editor Barrie Vince, and actor Christopher Sandford, each of whom contributes his own version of how DEEP END was part of the sixties' "swinging London"; and at the same time tilted it on its head.

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