Power Play

Power Play (1978)

All They Need is 2 Hours - And You'll Tell Them Everything!

A group of military officers frustrated by government corruption and brutality attempts a coup.

Date of release
1978-11-01
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Thriller, Drama
Director
Martyn Burke

Casting

Interesting facts

Power Play is a 1978 British-Canadian political thriller film directed by Martyn Burke and starring Peter O'Toole and David Hemmings. It was written by Burke and Edward N. Luttwak based on the latter's 1968 non-fiction strategy book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook.

Production

The UK-Canada co-production was filmed in Canada and West Germany. It was one of a series of Canadian films partly financed with some money from the Rank Organisation.

Power Play includes scenes shot at the University of Toronto's University College quadrangle and hallways. Portions were also filmed at CFB Borden, CFB Toronto and CFB Lahr in West Germany, using elements of the 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group. The Canadian Armed Forces also provided aircraft, armoured fighting vehicles (including Centurion tanks), and soldiers for the filming.

The flag of the film's unnamed republic, "a generic country with no specific geography or culture", was green, yellow and black.

It was one of the first films financed under Canadian tax concessions.

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