Blitz
Directed by Steve McQueen
Written by Steve McQueen
Starring Saorise Ronan, Elliot Heffernan
Released November 1st, 2024
Published January 8th, 2025
Blitz stars Saorise Ronan as Rita, a devoted mother desperately trying to hold her tiny family together amid the chaos of the German bombing campaign against England, historically remembered as The Blitz. With German planes bombarding England by night and few places to find safety and shelter from the explosions, hard choices and sacrifices are asked of all Britons. One sacrifice in particular strikes Rita as her father and friends convince her that the only way to keep her young son George (Elliott Heffernan) safe, is to send him away.
Amid the blitz, parents were giving their children to volunteers to take care of them by taking them to the English countryside, an area less likely to be harmed by German bombing raids. Thousands of English children were separated from their parents with only a little paperwork and the word of aid workers promising that they would ever see their children again. For Rita, the pain is doubled by the fact that she’s already lost her husband to the war and now, her only connection to him could be lost forever as well.
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