Mr. Turner

Mr. Turner (2014)

Timing: 2:30 (150 min)

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Video 18

Photo 28

Actors and characters

Release date

2014-10-31

Country

Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Production

Ingenious Media, Canal+, Focus Features, Amusement Park Films, Lipsync Productions, Film4 Productions, BFI, Ciné+, Sony Pictures Classics, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, France 3 Cinéma, Diaphana Films, Thin Man Films, Untitled 13, Xofa Productions

Genre

History, Drama

Budget

$0

Revenue

$5 405 500

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Director

Mike Leigh

Actors

Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Lesley Manville, Martin Savage, Ruth Sheen, David Horovitch, Karl Johnson, Peter Wight
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Scenario

Mike Leigh

Producer

Georgina Lowe, Tessa Ross, Gail Egan, Norman Merry

Operator

Dick Pope

Composer

Gary Yershon

Artist

Marco Anton Restivo

Audition

Nina Gold

Editing

Jon Gregory
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• At the request of director and screenwriter Mike Leigh, actor Timothy Spall, who played William Turner (1775-1851), spent two years learning to paint before filming began.
• A working model of the Planet locomotive, built in 1830 by Robert Stephenson and Company, was provided by the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. The locomotive was run on an old railway line in North Wales, laid from east to west. The filmmakers needed to capture the setting sun in the rear of the train – as Turner himself had painted it – and they had only one chance, as the locomotive was provided to them for just one day.