/9XOhGlYuAAvnwqgCNDb1GWhOEH3.jpg

Storm Front in Mayo (2019)

Genre : Documentary, History, War

Runtime : 53M

Director : Gerry Gregg

Synopsis

Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.

Actors

Eva Sweeney
Eva Sweeney
Young Maureen Flavin Sweeney
Colin Wright
Colin Wright
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mike Johnson
Mike Johnson
Captain James Stagg
John Downes
John Downes
Met Éireann Telephone Operator
Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor
Himself - Historian
Robert Gerwarth
Robert Gerwarth
Himself - Historian
Susan Eisenhower
Susan Eisenhower
Herself - Eisenhower's Granddaughter
Joseph Skelly
Joseph Skelly
Himself - Historian
Richard G. Trefry
Richard G. Trefry
Himself - Retired US Army Lieutenant General
Maureen Flavin Sweeney
Maureen Flavin Sweeney
Herself - Weather Observer (1944)
Gerald Fleming
Gerald Fleming
Himself - Meteorologist
David McCullagh
David McCullagh
Himself - Journalist
Catherine Ross
Catherine Ross
Herself - British Met Office Archivist
Jeremy Green
Jeremy Green
Himself - British Military Police Colonel
Rodney Teck
Rodney Teck
Himself - Climate Researcher
John C. Sweeney
John C. Sweeney
Himself - Climate Researcher
Vincent Sweeney
Vincent Sweeney
Himself - Lighthouse Keeper
Richard Callaghan
Richard Callaghan
Himself - Royal MP Museum Curator
Joe Cattini
Joe Cattini
Himself - D-Day Veteran
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Himself (archive footage)
Bernard Montgomery
Bernard Montgomery
Himself (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Himself (archive footage)
Éamon de Valera
Éamon de Valera
Himself (archive footage)
Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel
Himself (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Himself (archive footage)
James Stagg
James Stagg
Himself (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels
Himself (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Himself (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Himself (archive footage)

Crews

Clodagh Deegan
Clodagh Deegan
Wardrobe Supervisor
Khaki Devil
Khaki Devil
Costume Designer
David Johnstone
David Johnstone
Art Direction
Brendan Deasy
Brendan Deasy
Sound Recordist
Jen Dunbar
Jen Dunbar
Production Manager
Ciarán O'Connor
Ciarán O'Connor
Executive Producer
Paul Myler
Paul Myler
Co-Producer
Colm O'Callaghan
Colm O'Callaghan
Executive Producer
Seamus Deasy
Seamus Deasy
Director of Photography
Juangus Dinsmore
Juangus Dinsmore
Editor
Gerry Gregg
Gerry Gregg
Director
Nuala Cunningham
Nuala Cunningham
Producer
Gerry Gregg
Gerry Gregg
Writer
David Johnstone
David Johnstone
Property Master
Aishling Vesey
Aishling Vesey
Post Production Supervisor
Ken Galvin
Ken Galvin
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Trailers and other movies

Posters and backgrounds

/9XOhGlYuAAvnwqgCNDb1GWhOEH3.jpg

Similar

The Counterfeiters
The story Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
Overlord
France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their target, the surviving paratroopers realise that, in addition to fighting the Nazi troops that patrol the village, they also must fight against something else.
Schindler's List
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
The Photographer of Mauthausen
Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.
Churchill
A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
The Zookeeper's Wife
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
Allied
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Fury
In the last months of World War II, as the Allies make their final push in the European theatre, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant named 'Wardaddy' commands a Sherman tank called 'Fury' and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
The Pianist
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
The Birdcatcher
Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.
Downfall
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
Army of Shadows
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.
The Resistance Banker
In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. With his brother Gijs, he comes up with a risky plan to take out huge loans and use the money to finance the Resistance.
Where Eagles Dare
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
Naked Among Wolves
Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.
Von Ryan's Express
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
Judgment at Nuremberg
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.