Simon Burke

参加作品

偽りの忠誠 ナチスが愛した女
Screenplay
1940年。ドイツ軍のブラント大尉はオランダの屋敷で暮らす元ドイツ皇帝ヴィルヘルム2世を護衛する任務へ。ブラントは屋敷で働く女性のメイド、ミーカに好意を抱き、ミーカのほうも彼を受け入れ、2人は周囲に知られないよう肉体関係を繰り返す。実はミーカの正体は英国から送り込まれたスパイで、ブラントはミーカのそんな正体に気付いていたが、ミーカが送り込まれた理由とは。やがてそこにナチスの大物ヒムラーが到着する。
説きふせられて
Screenplay
Persuasion is the newest adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel of the same name published in 1818. Anne falls deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen.
Sons & Lovers
Screenplay
Filmmaker Stephen Whittaker adapts author D.H. Lawrence's simmering tale of sex, love, and family. In the years leading up to World War I, the problems faced by many families were uncannily similar to the issues that mankind would still be struggling with nearly a century later. Human relationships remain as fragile as ever, and the only constant in life seems to be a humbling sense of uncertainty. Sarah Lancashire stars in a drama detailing the anguish of first love, and the awkward confusion of first sex.
White Teeth
Screenplay
An adaptation of Zadie Smith's bestseller concerning the lives of two families from as far back as the 1800s and India to late 1990s Willesden.
The Guilty
Original Film Writer
Callum Crane, a lawyer and would-be federal judge, jeopardizes his chances at a judgeship by forcing himself on his secretary. He then worsens the situation by trying to have the woman murdered. Further complicating matters, he assigns the task to a young man who, unbeknownst to Crane, is actually his son, Nathan. Nathan refuses to do the deed, but not before informing several people, one of whom tries to take on the job.
Into the Blue
Writer
Contemporary thriller set partly on the island of Rhodes. A bankrupt former garage owner, now working as a waiter and a caretaker on the Greek isle, is hauled in by the local police when a young Englishwoman he has befriended goes missing. Under suspicion of murder, he flees the island and returns to England, where he begins trying to piece together the missing woman's background and her reasons for visiting Rhodes in the first place.