An Inspector Calls

(2015)

★ 7.4 IMDb · 268 votes

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery, телевизионный фильм

Year: 2015

Runtime: 86 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Aisling Walsh

Cast: Дэвид Тьюлис, Кен Стотт, Финн Коул, Хлоя Пирри, Миранда Ричардсон, Софи Рандл, Кайл Соллер, Lucy Chappell, Флора Николсон, Gary Davis

Plot

Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only announces that a young woman has committed suicide. Then, he simply asks everyone present, one by one, if they knew her.

In 1912 pompous industrialist Arthur Birling, who has hopes of a knighthood, his superior wife Sybil and young son Eric are celebrating the engagement of daughter Sheila to eligible Gerald Croft when they are visited by blunt Inspector Goole. He tells them of the suicide of a young woman named Eva Smith and though they all claim not to have known her the inspector demonstrates that each in their own way contributed to her downfall, by having her dismissed from work or, in the young men's cases, having sexual relationships and then abandoning her. After Goole has left the youngsters feel ashamed and the engagement is halted but Arthur Birling, doubting the inspector's authority, rings the local police station. This is the prelude to a double shock which will lead to the family's humiliation and ruin.