CinemaOSMovie · 2024 · 0h 12m

Broken Token

Documentary

A single female voice sings of waiting in her garden for her ‘dark-eyed sailor’ to return from war, bearing the other half of their token, a gimmel ring. Three veterans pass on the road as she waits, and she asks them: “When you were fighting in distant lands, did you think of the home you left?” In reply the veterans relate their recollections. The garden images in the accompanying film represent ‘home’, but also stand for a more general possibility of redemption, of the potential of the past to return at any time, disguised and changed, to renew the present: “Each moment of time is a garden gate,” the song goes, “Through it my love may walk.”

Directed byPaul Rooney

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 12m
Language
EN
Released
October 19, 2024
Studios
Imperial War Museums

Featuring

Cast & crew

1 credited
Starring

Hannah Martin

Creative team
Directed by
Paul Rooney
Written by
Paul Rooney
Tony Ray

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