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When the Wind Blows (1986 film)

When the Wind Blows
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Directed by Jimmy Murakami
Produced by John Coates
Written by Raymond Briggs (also graphic novel)
Starring
Music by Roger Waters
Distributed by United Kingdom:
Recorded Releasing
United States:
Kings Road Entertainment Japan:
Nippon Herald Films/At Entertainment
Release date

United Kingdom:
24 October 1986 Portugal:
17 February 1987
(Fantasporto Film Festival)
United States:
11 March 1988

Japan:
25 July 1987
Running time
80 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Box office $5,274
When the Wind Blows
RogerWaters WTWB.JPG
Soundtrack album by Various artists, Roger Waters and The Bleeding Heart Band
Released 16 May 1986
Recorded Winter 1985
Length 45:36
Label Virgin Records
Producer Roger Waters
David Bowie
Hugh Cornwell
Peter Hammond
Paul Hardcastle
Squeeze
Roger Waters chronology
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
(1984)
When the Wind Blows
(1986)
Radio K.A.O.S.
(1987)
Singles from When the Wind Blows
  1. "When the Wind Blows"
    Released: 27 October 1986
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars

United Kingdom:
24 October 1986 Portugal:
17 February 1987
(Fantasporto Film Festival)
United States:
11 March 1988

When the Wind Blows is a 1986 British animated disaster film directed by Jimmy Murakami based on Raymond Briggs' graphic novel of the same name. The film stars the voices of John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft as the two main characters.

The film was Briggs' second collaboration with TVC, after their efforts with a special based on another work of his, The Snowman, in 1982. It was distributed by Recorded Releasing in the UK, and by Kings Road Entertainment in the United States. A subsequent graphic novel by Briggs, Ethel and Ernest (1998), makes it clear that Briggs based the protagonist couple in When the Wind Blows on his own parents.

When the Wind Blows is a hybrid of drawn animation and stop-motion animation. The characters of Jim and Hilda Bloggs are drawn, but their home and most of the objects in it are real objects that seldom move but are animated with stop motion when they do.

The soundtrack album features music by David Bowie (who performed the title song), Roger Waters, Genesis, Squeeze, Hugh Cornwell and Paul Hardcastle.

James and Hilda Bloggs are a retired couple living in a tidy isolated cottage in rural Sussex in southeast England. James frequently travels to London to read the newspapers and keep abreast of the deteriorating international situation regarding the Soviet-Afghan War; while frequently misunderstanding some specifics, he is fully aware of the growing risk of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. James is horrified at a radio news report stating that a war may be only three days away, and sets about preparing for the worst as instructed by his government-issued Protect and Survive pamphlets. As Hilda continues her daily routine, and their son Ron, who is implied to have fallen into fatalistic despair, dismisses such preparations as pointless (referencing the song "We'll All Go Together When We Go" by Tom Lehrer), James builds a lean-to shelter inside their home (which he consistently calls the "inner core or refuge" per the pamphlets) and prepares a stock of supplies. He also follows through seemingly strange instructions such as painting his windows with white paint and readying sacks to lie down in when a nuclear strike hits. Despite James' concerns, he and Hilda are confident they can survive the war, as they did World War II in their childhoods, and that a Soviet defeat will ensue.


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