When the Whales Came

(1989)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 17 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1989

Runtime: 100 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Clive Rees

Cast: Пол Скофилд, David Threlfall, Хелен Миррен, Helen Pearce, Max Rennie, Дэвид Суше, Jeremy Kemp, John Hallam, Barbara Ewing, Декстер Флетчер

Plot

A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.