A funny, cruel exploration of the male psyche, Enter Achilles is set in a typical British pub, a shabby, nicotine-stained boozer. Pop songs tumble out of the jukebox, there is football on the TV, and the eight men lark around, pint glasses in hand. But their blokish fun is balanced on a knife-edge of tension, for beneath the mateyness lurks a disturbing undercurrent of paranoia and insecurity, where weakness is brutally exploited and violence covers up vulnerability.
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Cast
18 people
Gabriel Castillo
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Holiday Heartbreak
Jordi Cortés Molina
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Courzand
Bob Lockyear
Clara van Gool
Michael Howells
Juan Kruz Díaz de Garaio Esnaola
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Dido & Aeneas
David Stacey
Adrian Johnston
David Emanuel
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Christopher Oram
Ross Hounslow
Nils Post
Clara van Gool Director · Adrian Johnston Composer Nils Post Cinematographer
First release January 1, 1996 · Produced in Netherlands · Production BBC, DV8 Filmproduction
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RM Arts
Production
BBC
Production
DV8 Filmproduction
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DV8 Physical Theatre
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Netherlands
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Netherlands · January 1, 1996
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No release date listed for United States.
Poland
July 20, 2007 · ERA New Horizons Film Festival
United Kingdom
March 28, 2008 · London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
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