PEAKY BLINDERS is an epic British gangster drama
set in 1919 Birmingham.
Created by Steven Knight, starring Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill, Helen
McCrory and Paul Anderson.
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Beschreibung
In his first television drama, creator Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty
Things and Eastern Promises) says: "The story I want to tell is
based on family legend and historical fact. It is a fiction woven
into a factual landscape which is breathtakingly dramatic and
cinematic, but which for very English reasons has been consigned to
historical text books."
Peaky Blinders is an epic gangster family saga that begins in 1919
in the lawless slum neighborhoods of post-war Birmingham. Returning
soldiers, newly-minted revolutionaries and criminal gangs all fight
for survival in an industrial landscape gripped by economic
upheaval. Guns smuggled home from the trenches find their way onto
the streets and become lethal currency. Communists don't just dream
of revolution - they are planning for it and the government is
expecting it. As Churchill mobilizes his Special Branch forces,
illegal bookmakers make fortunes in speak-easy betting shops and
traumatised infantrymen drink away their shell shock in riotous ale
houses.
There is still a gentler city at the fringes, where gypsies and
canal boatmen deal horses and tell fortunes, but sitting at the top
of this industrial jungle are the extended Shelby family, whose
many brothers, sisters, cousins and uncles make up the fiercest
gang of all, the 'Peaky Blinders'. Named for their practise of
sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, the Peaky
Blinders make their money from off track betting, protection and
robbery.
Their boss Tommy is the most ruthless brother of them all, but his
leadership is about to be put to the test. A ruthless new police
chief arrives in town from Belfast to clean up the city and,
perhaps more lethally, a beautiful woman arrives in the
neighborhood with a mysterious past and a dangerous secret.
Peaky Blinders is a dazzling picture of England which blows away
preconceptions even though the characters and events are taken
directly from the pages of history. They now burst into life in a
vibrant evocation of a hedonistic age, where the clothes are
razor-sharp, the music fast and the dancing outrageous. The real
Peaky Blinders were a scandal and this fiction will be the same.
The Shelby's will be a family not to be taken lightly.
Controller BBC Drama Commissioning, Ben Stephenson, says: "Building
on BBC Two's reputation for world-class drama, Peaky Blinders is a
phenomenally authored drama series shedding light on a piece of
hidden British history. Authentic, bloody and utterly compelling,
Peaky Blinders welcomes Steven Knight and Otto Bathurst to BBC Two
and adds another boldly crafted drama to our roster of upcoming
shows."
Head of Drama, Tiger Aspect Productions Greg Brenman and Chief
Executive, Caryn Mandabach of Caryn Mandabach Productions says:
"Speaking on behalf of Greg Brenman at Tiger, and all of the other
producers who are fortunate enough to be associated with this
groundbreaking work, we couldn't be more lucky or more honored to
be supporting Steven's vision. This is television at its
best."
The executive producers are: Steven Knight, Caryn Mandabach, Greg
Brenman, Jamie Glazebrook, Frith Tiplady and Matthew Read for the
BBC.
It is created by Steven Knight, directed by Otto Bathurst (Five
Days, Criminal Justice, Margot) and produced by Katie Swinden
(Luther, Spooks).
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