Graham Shipham

In 1949, at the height of the Cold War, the British and American Governments decided to fight back at the growing Soviet Empire with a secret plan, the Albanian Subversion, in which the CIA and MI6 attempted to overthrow the Albanian government and to weaken the Soviet Union and the role of double agent Kim Philby.

The documentary set out to investigate, not the well-chronicled social problems of 1960s council housing, but the origins of how they came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.

ジュード・ロウ主演によるリメイクでも話題を集めた作品。バート・バカラック作曲による有名なテーマ曲や、ジャズ・スタンダードにもなったソニー・ロリンズによる劇中音楽など、音楽の魅力が光る名作。主演はマイケル・ケイン。