A striking black-and-white film still. An older working man in a flat cap, braces and rolled-up sleeves is hauling multiple worn tyres and a battered metal bucket along a rural dirt track, fields stretching out behind him under a grey sky. He looks directly into the camera with a weathered, stoic expression — burdened but unbowed.

About Redoubt

Denis Lavant delivers an astonishing physical performance in John Skoog’s beautiful and inventive story of community and obsession, inspired by true events.

At the height of the Cold War, Swedish farmhand Karl-Göran Persson obsessively fortifies his house into a community haven from what appears to be an imminent global conflict. Grounded by Ita Zbroniec-Zajt’s extraordinary black and white cinematography, artist-filmmaker Skoog poetically reimagines the drama of one man’s obsession against the undulating rhythms and beauty of rural quotidian life.
 

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MAC’s cinema programme has been generously supported by BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub Midlands.

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