TITLE: White Mischief
YEAR: 1987

MICHAEL RADFORD: Director, Screenwriter

STARRING:
Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Joss Ackland, Geraldine Chaplin, Sarah Miles and Trevor Howard Click for more

SYNOPSIS:  
White Mischief tells the true life story of the famous and spectacular scandal which destroyed the high living and decadent expatriate community in Kenya in 1941... Click for more

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
This film is perhaps much closer to my own personal experience than any of my other films having lived most of my childhood in expatriate communities around the globe. It was my third collaboration with Roger Deakins, the cinematographer, and many of the locations were shot in the same places that they actually happened: notably the “Djinn Palace” on the edge of Lake Naivasha. We tried to create a look in which the beauty of the clothes would be set against the starkness of the earth and the light, and so we shot, contrary to custom, not at the ‘golden hour’ when the sun is low and the shadows are long, but in the heat of the day when the light is white and hot... Click for more

AWARDS:
Nominated for 3 BAFTA Film Awards: Best Actor, Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design
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