Power Play (1978 film)
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Power Play is a 1978 British
-Canadian thriller film starring Peter O'Toole
and David Hemmings
, based on the non-fiction strategy book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook
by Edward N. Luttwak.
A small group of military officers frustrated by the corruption of a fictional contemporary European government decide that they must overthrow the current administration. But the coup's leader worries that there is a spy in their group.
A UK-Canada co-production filmed in Canada and West Germany, Power Play includes scenes shot at the University of Toronto's University College quadrangle and hallways. Portions were also filmed at Canadian Forces Base Borden, north of Toronto.
The flag of the film's unnamed republic, "a generic country with no specific geography or culture" was green, yellow and black.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
-Canadian thriller film starring Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole
Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole is an Irish actor of stage and screen. O'Toole achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, and then went on to become a highly-honoured film and stage actor. He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds the record for most...
and David Hemmings
David Hemmings
David Edward Leslie Hemmings was an English film, theatre and television actor as well as a film and television director and producer....
, based on the non-fiction strategy book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook
Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook
Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook is a history book by Edward Luttwak examining the conditions, strategy, planning, and execution of coups d'état.-Critical Response:...
by Edward N. Luttwak.
A small group of military officers frustrated by the corruption of a fictional contemporary European government decide that they must overthrow the current administration. But the coup's leader worries that there is a spy in their group.
A UK-Canada co-production filmed in Canada and West Germany, Power Play includes scenes shot at the University of Toronto's University College quadrangle and hallways. Portions were also filmed at Canadian Forces Base Borden, north of Toronto.
The flag of the film's unnamed republic, "a generic country with no specific geography or culture" was green, yellow and black.
External links
- http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/reviews2010/power_play.htm
- http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fic_popl.html#uc