Blackout im Höllenparadies (1982)

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Scrubbers is a 1982 British drama film directed by Mai Zetterling and produced by Don Boyd starring Amanda York, Kathy Burke and Chrissie Cotterill. It was shot primarily in Virginia Water, Surrey, England. It was inspired by the success of the 1979 film Scum.

Production

The film was based on a script by Roy Minton who had also written Scum. The film version of Scum was produced by Don Boyd who in April 1980 announced he would make Scrubbers as part of a slate of eight movies with a total budget of £9 million. Boyd went on to make Honky Tonk Freeway but in June 1981 announced he intended to make Scrubbers with Mai Zetterling as director.

Zetterling said she agreed to make the film "only if I could rewrite the script to put less stress on lesbian relationships... The original script for Scrubbers was Peeping Tom stuff." Zetterling claimed she "did a lot of work on" the script "developing different types of character. There were also certain scenes that were too reminiscent of Scum and we took them out.

Chrissie Cotterill said the cast and Zetterling hated the title "Scrubbers". Boyd insisted the title remain though "our approach in advertising will be to minimise the pejorative effect of the word."

Filming took place in March 1982 with finance coming from HandMade Films. Zetterling wrote in her memoir that she "felt very strongly and passionately about the making of" the film, adding:

My own headline for the movie was one word... compassion. It took me months to do the fieldwork in order to get the documentation that I wanted, the knowledge and hundreds of girls passed in front of my video camera before I found my loyal group of thirty unknowns. We had a week of rehearsals in a Victorian mental hospital in Virginia Water, where we also filmed: no studios for me.

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