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Mia Threapleton, Danny Huston Join Guy Pearce, Jared Harris & Merab Ninidze In ‘The Price Of Peace’ As Filming Begins in London
Filming has begun in London on The Price of Peace, a political thriller written by Anthony McCarten dramatising the 1945 Potsdam Conference, at which Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin negotiated the shape of post-war Europe. Guy Pearce, Jared Harris and Merab Ninidze play the three leaders respectively, and the production is notable for reuniting a starry ensemble cast around a pivotal moment in 20th-century history that McCarten, known for Darkest Hour and The Two Popes, describes as the turning point between the Second World War and the Cold War.
Mia Threapleton has joined as Churchill's daughter Mary Churchill, alongside Danny Huston as General Groves, the US Army officer who oversaw the Manhattan Project. The film is produced by Raccoon Features, Muse of Fire Productions and Salloway Studios, with SND handling international sales after strong buyer interest at this year's European Film Market in Berlin. The crew includes cinematographer Henry Braham, production designer James Merifield and composer Harry Gregson-Williams, several of whom previously worked on films including Superman and Nosferatu.
In short
- The Price of Peace, about the 1945 Potsdam Conference, starts filming in London.
- Mia Threapleton and Danny Huston join stars Guy Pearce and Jared Harris.
- Written by Anthony McCarten; SND handles international sales.
Explained simply
The Price of Peace is a forthcoming political thriller dramatising the 1945 Potsdam Conference, a crucial meeting at the end of the Second World War. At Potsdam, near Berlin, American president Harry S. Truman, British prime minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin negotiated the shape of post-war Europe, decisions that would define international relations for decades. The conference marks the point where the wartime alliance began to fracture and Cold War tensions emerged.
The film is written by Anthony McCarten, who previously wrote the political dramas Darkest Hour and The Two Popes. His screenplay dramatises the complex negotiations between the three leaders as each pursued their own national interests and ideological vision for Europe's future. The Potsdam Conference remains significant because the decisions made there shaped the division of Germany, established Soviet influence in Eastern Europe, and set the stage for Cold War tensions that would dominate the second half of the twentieth century.
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