After the end of the Second World War – and as its overseas empire began to crumble – Britain embarked on the rocky road to national reconstruction and revival. The Locarno Film Festival’s wide-ranging survey of British cinema of that period, organized in partnership with the BFI and the Cinémathèque suisse, and with the support of STUDIOCANAL, shows the cultural response by the nation's filmmakers, writers, producers, performers, and studios as they collectively tried to make sense o...
