Lea Anderson is a soldier in the British Special Forces but has now come to doubt her career choice. The secrecy, bloodshed, and lack of a normal life are too much for the young woman who finally decides to call it quits, but not before going on one more mission in the Middle East to ensure her team and stepbrother Paul get through it safely.
When their unit runs into an ambush set by the terrorist they are supposed to kill, Lea and Paul get captured and forced to make a life-and-death decision: One of them will get to leave, and one of them will die. In a moment of weakness, Paul bails and leaves Lea in the terrorist's hands, sure to face her maker. Years later, she returns to the UK not as a former hostage but as a soldier, fighting the establishment that shaped her into a highly trained avenging angel.
PAST AND FUTURE
Except for a few scenes in London and Berlin, the film was shot on location in Ukraine and completed at the end of 2019. We planned to screen-test the movie in the USA and Europe to create a final version based on audience reaction. Unfortunately, the pandemic caused numerous issues, and the entire production almost collapsed overnight. Unable to resolve the problems created by COVID 19, it was impossible to re-evaluate the issues and correct them. In short: HEROES & COWARDS was a failure. The film was completely lost in the mass of films on offer in 2020 and 2021. This is the backstory.
We will be re-releasing this outstanding independent production as a directors cut in a new edition.
HEROES & COWARDS deserves to be shown to a wider audience. Unfortunately, some of our war-torn male
Ukrainian actors and crew members will not see the restart.
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Genre: Action, Drama
Duration: 88 mins
Country: Ukraine, Germany, Great Britain
Language: English
Status: Completed 2024
Written and directed by:
Harald Franklin
Cast:
Alan Burgon, Sophie Toropchina, Peter Zackman,
Ivan Doan, Guido Föhrweißer, Morad Azzaaoui,
Alex Shum, Oleg Karpenko, Yuriy Lebedevich,
Dmitriy Frid
Our two presentations during the international film festival in Odessa were celebrated frenetically. Audiences and film critics were unanimous: Heroes and Cowards has become a great film. The national and international press was also full of praise. Here is the general tenor:
Despite the fact that Harald Franklin is a brilliant representative of independent cinema, his work is in no way inferior to expensive Hollywood blockbusters. In his new film, the director turned to the topic of international terrorism. But in his own original way, he proposed his version of the fight against this “plague of the 21st century”. What happens when siblings find themselves on opposite sides of the barricades? Is it possible to give up a debt to the motherland for a loved one?
20 articles in Ukraine and Russia after the premiere
https://bestpeopleclub.com/harald-franklin-v-ukraine-mnogo-talantlivyh-artistov.html
https://journalist.today/rezhisser-harald-franklin-v-ukraine-mnogo-talantlivyh-akterov/
https://zp.today/lifestyle/ukrainskie-artisty-pokoryayut-evropejskij-kinematograf.html?
https://womanmagazine-npp.com/2019/07/27/ukrainskie-artisty-pokorjajut-evropejskij-kinematograf/
http://www.newsmagic.com.ua/ukrainskie-artisty-pokoryayut-evropejskij-kinematograf/
http://zvezdy.com.ua/geroi-i-trusy-kak-ukraintsy-v-nemetskom-kino-snimalis/
https://tvoyshans.club/novosti/sobytia/ukrainskie-artisty-pokoryayut-evropejskij-kinematograf/
https://eurostarinua.wordpress.com/2019/07/25/1008/
http://starbrothers.com.ua/ukrainskie-artisty-pokoryayut-evropejskij-kinematograf/
https://5slov.com/ukrainskie-artisty-pokoryayut-evropejskij-kinematograf/
http://chekhovdelo.ru/2019/07/25/ukrainskie-artisty-pokoryayut-evropejskij-kinematograf/
https://uazmi.net/news/post/bU1hVc2N5ONg8b8kS00nzK
http://healthsnews.com/rezhisser-xarald-franklin-o-novom-filme-terrorizme-i-odesse.html