Dunkirk
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Short description
Dunkirk is set in late May and early June 1940, as hundreds of thousands of Allied troops are trapped on the beaches and in the harbour of the French port after being surrounded by the German army. With the sea behind them and the enemy closing in, the British military organises an evacuation, later known as Operation Dynamo. The film follows soldiers trying to get off the beach, Royal Air Force pilots flying cover overhead, and civilians who take their own small boats across the Channel to help bring the men home.
Christopher Nolan wrote and directed the film, and produced it with Emma Thomas. It is the twelfth of the fifteen films he has directed, arriving between Quay and Tenet. The large ensemble cast includes Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan, with fifty credited cast members and 221 credited crew in all.
Released in July 2017, the film runs 107 minutes and was made for around 150 million US dollars. It went on to take roughly 549 million dollars worldwide. Audience ratings sit at 7.8 out of 10 on IMDb from more than 800,000 votes and 7.5 out of 10 on TMDB from around 18,000 votes. A film critics' rating of 8.7 out of 10 from 469 reviews places it noticeably above those audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Striving for maximum authenticity, Christopher Nolan installed cameras in the cockpits and on the wings of fighter planes and sent operators into the water with the actors.
- While filming took place on the artificial freshwater lake of IJsselmeer in the central Netherlands, the actors and film crew stayed in Urk, a village and municipality in the province of Flevoland.
- Christopher Nolan's first blockbuster filmed for under $100 million. According to producer Emma Thomas, they deliberately limited the budget, understanding the experimental nature of the film's script, which consisted almost entirely of one action sequence and featured very little dialogue for the characters.
- To avoid using computer graphics, the props department prepared cardboard cutouts of soldiers and vehicles, which were placed as far from the camera as possible but effectively enhanced the impression of the vast size of the Allied troops trapped.
- The prototype for Mark Rylance’s character (the yacht captain) was likely Charles Lightoller (1874-1952), best known as the second officer of the Titanic. During Operation Dynamo, Lightoller, along with his son and a cabin boy, went to Dunkirk on his yacht and evacuated 130 people. One of Lightoller’s five children was also a pilot, and he died on the first day of the war; the elder son of Rylance’s character has a similar fate.
- Christopher Nolan decided to use real destroyers in the naval battle scene rather than resorting to computer graphics.
- This is Christopher Nolan's first film based on historical events. Until now, he had only filmed original screenplays, remakes, and adaptations of novels and comics.
- The cinematic debut of Harry Styles from the boy band One Direction.
- A Soviet two-seat sports and training aircraft, the Yak-52, was used as the Spitfire fighter. It was modified so that the actor and pilot could switch places depending on the scene being filmed.
- Radio-controlled models were used instead of real Junkers Ju 87 dive bombers and Heinkel He 111 bombers, as was done for other aircraft in scenes depicting their fall/ditching.
- The dialogue in the film is minimized. While preparing for filming, Christopher Nolan rewatched a large number of silent films to understand how the classics of cinema depicted mass scenes—specifically, Erich von Stroheim’s "Greed" (1924), D.W. Griffith’s "Intolerance" (1916), and F.W. Murnau’s "Sunrise" (1927).
- To film the aerial combat scenes, an IMAX camera was installed in the cockpit of one of the three Spitfire aircraft used in the film, which was not easy considering its weight and size.
- Hans Zimmer (composer), Hoyte van Hoytema (cinematographer), Nathan Crowley (production designer), John Papsidera (casting director), and actors Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy all worked with Christopher Nolan again on “Dunkirk.” Many members of the film crew had been continuously working with Nolan since the “Dark Knight” trilogy (2005, 2008, 2012), and Hoytema since “Interstellar” (2014).
- Nearly 6,000 extras participated in the filming.
- Christopher Nolan received $20 million plus 20% of the box office receipts for his work on the film. This is the largest sum ever paid to a director. Peter Jackson was the first to receive such an amount for “King Kong” (2005).
- This is Christopher Nolan’s third film for which he wrote the screenplay himself, following “Following” (1999) and “Inception” (2010).
- Following Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” (2012) and Quentin Tarantino’s western “The Hateful Eight” (2015), “Dunkirk” is the third major cinematic project of the decade shot primarily on 70mm film and shown in the same format.
- The film was shot in France under the working title “Bodega Bay” (Bodega is a Pacific bay on the coast of California, USA, where the town of Bodega Bay is located).
- In some scenes of the film, two fishing trawlers preserved from that time – UK12 and UK114 – are visible in the background. In this case, the letters do not signify Great Britain, as one might assume. It is a Dutch letter code denoting Urk, a village near which the filming took place.
- During the evacuation episode, 333,000 soldiers from the Allied armies were depicted using 1,500 extras, a crane, and a flamethrower.
- A bodyguard was constantly on set to protect Harry Styles from fans if necessary.
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