One Night in Turin
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| Directed by | James Erskine |
| Produced by | James Erskine Victoria Gregory Alex Holmes |
| Screenplay by | James Erskine |
| Story by | Pete Davies |
| Based on | All Played Out by Pete Davies |
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Paul Gascoigne Douglas Hurd Graham Kelly Colin Moynihan Bobby Robson Glenn Roeder Elliot Francis |
| Narrated by | Gary Oldman |
| Music by | Stuart Hancock |
| Cinematography | Lol Crawley |
| Edited by | Robin Peters and Dave Bell |
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New Black Films
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| Distributed by | Kaleidoscope |
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Running time
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97 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £100,000 |
One Night in Turin is a 2010 British documentary film directed by James Erskine, and written by Pete Davies and James Erskine. The documentary is about the England football team during 1990 FIFA World Cup and left the nation undone by West Germany on penalties in the semi-final. It looks at the social and political context of the event as well as how it changed people's perception of football and the England team.
Adapted from Pete Davies' eye-witness account All Played Out, a memoir of the England football team's World Cup adventure at the 1990 World Cup. The film weaves together the strands of a narrative which has a distinctive arc. It has a subjective tone, which speaks from the perspective of one who was there at the time.
The film only uses archive footage – there are no modern contextual interviews, all the footage is from the time. "It offers context to the improbable rise of the England football team and the social and political aspect of this film is a backdrop used to make England's footballing achievement seem like a defining moment that brought a divided nation together."
It uses a mixture of archive footage (much of it previously unseen), narration, and recreated scenes. The match action is intercut with reconstructed, modern-day footage: the recreations shot by Lol Crawley shot by take the form of close-ups which involve isolating and emphasising one moment of detail in order to create a heightened sense of drama and present a "You Are There" feeling to England's run in the 1990 tournament.
The film revisits the iconic footballing footage:Paul Gascoigne's tears, Gary Lineker's goals,David Platt's volley against Belgium, Lineker mouthing to the touchline after Gascoigne's yellow card against West Germany,Bobby Robson's rueful smile and consoling Gascoigne with the words, "You've got your life ahead of you. This is your first." As well as English football hooligans,Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher backing a proposal to stop England going to Italy, Tory Sports minister Colin Moynihan encouraging the Italian police to be extremely firm with England's supporters, the tabloid press hounding of Sir Bobby and Chris Waddle's calamitous penalty shoot-out kick. It weaves rare, unseen footage with a Gary Oldman-voiced narrative and a soundtrack with early nineties music.
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