PREVIEW: The Survivor (15 TBC)

WHO’S IN IT?

Ben Foster (Hell or High Water), Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), Billy Magnussen (Game Night), Peter Sarsgaard (The Lost Daughter), John Leguizamo (Encanto), Danny DeVito (Batman Returns), Dar Zuzovsky (Papa), Saro Emirze (film debut), Kingston Vernes (Mank), Sophie Knapp (Brighton Beach), Björn Freiberg (Kills On Wheels), Pablo Raybould (Me Before You)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Barry Levinson (Rain Man), director, producer; Justine Juel Gillmer (film debut), writer; Aaron L. Gilbert (Needle in a Timestack), Matti Leshem (The Shallows), Scott Pardo (Hope & A Little Sugar) and Jason Sosnoff (The Last Act), producers; Hans Zimmer (Dune), composer; George Steel (The Aeronauts), cinematographer; Douglas Crise (Spring Breakers), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In the years since the Second World War, boxer Harry Haft (Foster) – who was imprisoned in a concentration camp, and fought fellow prisoners in order to survive – is haunted by his past, and begins taking on some boxing titans in order to find his love again…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Ben Foster – the actor, not the footballer (as if you needed to be reminded which one we’re talking about on this film website) – takes on the heavy role of boxer Harry Haft in this moving historical drama from Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

SUNDAY 26TH JUNE 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON SKY CINEMA AND NOW

 

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