![]() ![]() He was helping with the reconstruction programme that the victorious British, French and Russians were undertaking in the devastated country.Īuthor Rhidian Brook, right, and his father Kim, left, and actor Jason Clarke on the set of 'The Aftermath'. In 1946, only months after the end of the Second World War, Brook's grandfather Jack, a captain in the British Army, was stationed in Hamburg. ![]() ![]() Not content to go home empty-handed, however, Brook turned his mind to his own grandfather, and a story he’d been thinking about writing since 2007.Īrbuthnott loved it, and nine years later, the result is The Aftermath, a period drama starring Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgard that opens in UAE cinemas this weekend. When novelist and screenwriter Rhidian Brook arrived for a meeting with film producer Jack Arbuthnott back in 2010, he had come prepared.īrook had a host of movie ideas to pitch, but there was a small problem: Arbuthnott didn't like any of them. ![]()
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