O'Sullivan To Attend IFTA Preview of Emmy Winning ‘Into the Storm’

‘Into the Storm’ tells the tale of Winston Churchill’s life post World War II where, following the Allies’ victory, Britain went to the polls in 1945 to decide their post-war prime minister and ruling party. For the month that it took to tally these votes Churchill went on holiday to France with his wife and daughter in anticipation of the election results. ‘Into the Storm’ uses this time as a framework for the story, beginning as Churchill awaits his fate, and looks back at the war years as he guided his beleaguered nation through this difficult and challenging period.

The film sees Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges) in his Emmy-winning role as British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. IFTA-winning Irish costume designer Consolata Boyle (The Queen) was costume designer for the project.

Speaking to IFTN ahead of the preview screening, director Thaddeus O’Sullivan describes what drew him to the film:

“Into the Storm is a film about Winston Churchill's time as Prime Minister during WWII. This is the man who galvanised the country to fight in 1940. Later that year, after the Battle of Britain, the world could see Churchill had succeeded in inspiring the country to achieve the unthinkable and prevent the invasion of Britain. Why then did the public vote Churchill out of office in 1945? Only weeks after victory in Europe the people of Britain booted out of office one of the greatest heroes of British history. When I started work with the writer on Into the Storm, I new very little about this period of Churchill's life, but this dramatic fact alone seemed reason enough to make it.”

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