Broken Token
202412m
Documentary
- Runtime
- 12m
- Genre
- Documentary
- Origin
- United Kingdom
About
A single female voice sings of waiting in her garden for her ‘dark-eyed sailor’ to return from war, bearing the other half of their token, a gimmel ring. Three veterans pass on the road as she waits, and she asks them: “When you were fighting in distant lands, did you think of the home you left?” In reply the veterans relate their recollections. The garden images in the accompanying film represent ‘home’, but also stand for a more general possibility of redemption, of the potential of the past to return at any time, disguised and changed, to renew the present: “Each moment of time is a garden gate,” the song goes, “Through it my love may walk.”
Where to watch
Not available to stream in United States yet.
Details
- Director
- Paul Rooney
- Writing
- Paul Rooney, Tony Ray, Carol Ray
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Oct 19, 2024
- Studio
- Imperial War Museums
Cast
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