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Castles in the Sky
Film office for Edinburgh, East Lothian and the Scottish Borders

Castles in the Sky

Gillies Mackinnon - 2013

World War 2 period drama about the inventor of radar directed by Gillies MacKinnon starring Eddie Izzard and Laura Fraser.

It is the mid-1930s and the storm clouds of WWII are forming in Germany. This film charts the work of Robert Watson Watt, the pioneer of Radar, and his hand-picked team of eccentric yet brilliant meteorologists as they struggle to turn the concept of Radar into a workable reality.

Filmed on location at Newbattle Abbey, Gosford (East Lothian), Freemasons Hall (Edinburgh) and New Parliament House (Edinburgh).

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