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