In cinemas February 13
The story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a single evening.
Academy Award-winner Same Mendes (Skyfall, 1917) directs Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles who play the Lehman Brothers, their sons and grandsons.
On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers and an American epic begins.
163 years later, the firm they establish - Lehman Brothers - spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, and triggers the largest financial crisis in history.
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In cinemas February 20
Anthony Minghella's vividly cinematic staging returns to cinemas, featuring soprano Hui He in the devastating title role. Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts one of opera's most beautiful and heartbreaking scores, with a cast that also includes Andrea Care as Pinkerton, Paulo Szot as Sharpless, and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong as Suzuki.
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In cinemas February 27
Academy Award nominee Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa) brings to the screen the extraordinary untold story of Gareth Jones, an ambitious young Welsh journalist who travelled to the Soviet Union in 1933 and uncovered the appalling truth behind the Soviet 'utopia' and Stalin's regime. Initially a regular news investigation, Jones' quest quickly turned into a life-or-death journey...helping inspire George Orwell's famous allegory Animal Farm.
