Joy Division (2006 film)

Joy Division
British quad format film poster
Directed byReg Traviss
Written byReg Traviss
Rosemary Mason
Produced byKim Leggatt
StarringTom Schilling
Ed Stoppard
Bernadette Heerwagen
Bernard Hill
Ricci Harnett
Michelle Gayle
Ram John Holder
Sybille Gebhardt
Marlon Kittel
CinematographyBryan Loftus
Edited byPeter Cartwright
Music byGeorge Kallis
Production
companies
Kingsway Films
Dreamtool Entertainment
Hungarian Film Connection
Distributed byMomentum Pictures (UK)
Release dates
  • 3 July 2006 (2006-07-03) (Greece)
  • 11 July 2006 (2006-07-11) (Hungary)
  • 17 November 2006 (2006-11-17) (UK)
  • 9 February 2007 (2007-02-09) (Germany)
Running time
105 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Germany
Hungary
LanguageEnglish
Budget$6,000,000

Joy Division is a 2006 British-German-Hungarian film directed by Reg Traviss. The story is a fictional biopic which follows the life of a boy in Germany at the end of World War II into his adulthood in Russia and London during the Cold War. The script was written by Reg Traviss and Rosemary Mason and went into production in 2004 after completion of Traviss' short film JD Pilot in 2003, based upon the same script and which also starred Ed Stoppard in the role of adult Thomas. Joy Division was shown for the film industry at the Cannes Film Festival European Film Market and at the American Film Market in 2005. It was invited to screen at the Copenhagen International Film Festival in 2006 and was released theatrically in the United Kingdom in November 2006.