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The End

Type: Feature
Released: 2008
Directed by: Nicola Collins

Crew

Producer Teena Collins

Editor Noah Rosenstein

Editor Jeff Roe

Music Nick Page

Production Company Duckin & Divin Productions

Full credits (Main credits only)

Themes

Status

  • Shown in festivals

Synopsis:

In a time of almost arbitrary stabbings on Britain's streets, The End takes us back to the bygone era of the original East End gangster.

Filmmaker Collins explores the fascinating lives of her father Les Falco and his friends, infamous gangsters born in the war-torn East End who went on to thrive in the underworld. Despite their lack of remorse in their retellings of how they built their reputations through violence, one cannot help but warm to these men and their respect for a unified code.

Smart, charismatic and strangely moral, the interwoven characters question whether life on the streets wasn't safer under a unified system, as opposed to the apparent mayhem today.

Shot in black and white, this is the story of the old guard of gangsters who ruled the streets with an iron fist but always stood by 'the code'.

Festivals

Britdoc Film Festival 2008
Calgari Film Festival 2008
Camden Film Festival 2008
Cinevegas Film Festival 2008
Docville 2008
Downtown Film Festival 2008
Jacksonville Film Festival 2008
Munich Film Festival 2008
Philadelphia Film Festival 2008
Raindance Film Festival 2008
Rotterdam Film Festival 2008
Seattle Film Festival 2008
Worldfest Houston 2008


Awards

Audience Award Best Documentary - Jacksonville Film Festival 2008
Remi Award - Worldfest Houston 2008

Synopsis:
In a time of almost arbitrary stabbings on Britain's streets, The End takes us back to the bygone era of the original East End gangster.

Filmmaker Collins explores the fascinating lives of her father Les Falco and his friends, infamous gangsters born in the war-torn East End who went on to thrive in the underworld. Despite their lack of remorse in their retellings of how they built their reputations through violence, one cannot help but warm to these men and their respect for a unified code.

Smart, charismatic and strangely moral, the interwoven characters question whether life on the streets wasn't safer under a unified system, as opposed to the apparent mayhem today.

Shot in black and white, this is the story of the old guard of gangsters who ruled the streets with an iron fist but always stood by 'the code'.
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