Orkney
1971•1h 30m•
★9.0(1 ratings)
DramaTV Movie
Overview
Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.
Director
James MacTaggartWriters
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Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.
Factor
The runtime is 90 minutes (1h 30m).
The film was directed by James MacTaggart.
The screenplay was written by John McGrath.
This title is listed on IMDb as tt0067536.
1981
Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the dark winter, he is grateful for her kindness and company. But as she starts to enquire about his past, he worries about the long-held secret he'll have to reveal to her.
1939
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
1957
A portrait of life in the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland.
2020
In Aurand’s signature diaristic form, roses in bloom, farm animals, Orkney landscapes, and scenes of the late filmmaker Margaret Tait having tea are rendered through expressive Bolex movements as well as the director’s active camera, and punctuated by abstract swaths of saturated and shifting colors. The film is an homage to Tait, whom Aurand visited in Orkney.
2025
In 1994, a masked man shot a waiter in the only Indian restaurant in the Orkney Islands. The murder remained unsolved for years, until new evidence emerged. Delve into one of Scotland's most controversial cases, now with powerful new testimony.
1939
Scenes from the Handba' festival on New Year's Day in Kirkwall. Winner of the Scottish Prize, The Andrew Buchanan Cup at Scottish Amateur Film Festival, 1940. This was the last festival to be held until the end of the war.
1985
Piya Milan is a Romantic Drama Film focusing on the life of a Young Girl in search of true love, and she marries a smart man, living happily and fighting against facing problems from society.
1987
The makers of a sexploitation film deceive the officials of a small Illinois town into believing they are making a wholesome comedy.
1987
A woman clerk on "the lowest rung" in the US Department of Justice gets involved in a case of payoff schemes and sets a webbed trap that snares not only the perpetrators, but "one of the few good Senators" as well.
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