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Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to study life on Earth. His fantasies mirror the life of his hero, Flash Gordon, from the serial he watches each week at the local cinema. His escapades result in dilemmas that drive his mother to such distraction that she turns to the boy's strange uncle for help.Read moreLess
Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to study life on Earth. His fantasies mirror the life of his hero, Flash Gordon, from the serial he watches each week at the local cinema. His escapades result in dilemmas that drive his mother to such distraction that she turns to the boy's strange uncle for help.
The story
Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to study life on Earth. His fantasies mirror the life of his hero, Flash Gordon, from the serial he watches each week at the local cinema. His escapades result in dilemmas that drive his mother to such distraction that she turns to the boy's strange uncle for help.
Cast & crew
Rita TushinghamMay Cronin
Tom CourtenayUncle Tony Cronin
Hugh O'ConorPaul
Ian McElhinneyBrother Dowdall
Johnny WardClassroom Schoolboy
Sean FlanaganSean McCarthyExplore the crew
- Director
- Martin Duffy
- Original Music Composer
- Stephen McKeon
- Producer
- Marina Hughes
- Writer
- Martin Duffy
- Director of Photography
- Seamus Deasy
- Editor
- John Victor-Smith
- Producer
- Gérard Jourd'hui
- Producer
- Sylvaine Sainderichin