Bloomfield

Bloomfield (1970)

A moving story of a sportsman...Football is his whole life.

An aging soccer player has a part-time girlfriend, a young fan, and doubts about throwing a game.

Date of release
1970-12-01
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Drama
Director
Richard Harris, Uri Zohar

Casting

Interesting facts

Bloomfield is a 1971 British-Israeli drama film directed by Richard Harris and Uri Zohar. It was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival. The film stars Harris as an ageing footballer in Tel Aviv with his girlfriend as he prepares for his final match.

Production

The film was originally called Knights of Bloomfield and was to be directed by Uri Zohar. At one point the film was going to be shot in Italy and was known as Viva Higgins. Another title when the film was to be shot in Italy was Arrividerci, Thompson.

Harris called the story "very autobiographical. It's a story about freedom and man's success and moments of failure." Harris made it after Cromwell.

The film was financed by the Investor's Overseas Service, a mutual fund run by Bernie Cornfeld. It was their first investment in moviemaking although Cornfeld had invested in the short lived Commonwealth United Company. There were ten individual investors along with the banks.

Filming started in October 1969 in Israel, in Tel Aviv and Jaffa. Two weeks into filming director Uri Zohar left the production. After a week Harris took over as director. Since Harris was not a member of a technical union a crew union ordered its members to stop working but they continued anyway. "No other director would take over without months of preparation," claimed Harris.

Harris was meant to be in Israel for five weeks and ended up staying five months, causing him to miss out on playing the title role in the film Scrooge (Albert Finney took the role).

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