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Title: PURIFIERS, the

Reference number: 7057

Date: 2004

Director: [d. Richard Jobson]

Producer: [ Chris Atkins, Richard Jobson, Bill Kenwright]

Production company: [ Vestry Films]

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Certificate: 15

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 85.00 mins

Description: The Purifiers is set in an anonymous city of the near future where gang identity is forged through a fusion of music and karate clubs. Tired of hopeless government initiatives and bad policing, younger, more focussed activists respond by creating their own social infrastructure. An attempt is made to unite all of the respective gangs as one all-powerful confederation. The story is told through the eyes of John, the fading warrior who faces his toughest moral and physical test as he turns his back on the plan and leads his gang straight into an explosive unknown terrain where the odds are stacked against them. [synopsis from Scottish Screen Feature Films 2005 brochure]

Catalogued from secondary sources, tape copy held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive has no end credits. Script held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

Credits: [Cast Kevin McKidd, Gordon Alexander, Dominic Monaghan, Amber Sainsbury, Rachel Grant, Jamie Chu, Robin Kerr, Fraser James]

exec. p. Jim Howell, Simon Barnes, Su Lim, Natascha Warton
screenplay Richard Jobson
d. ph. John Rhodes
ed. Yannis Sakardis
p. designer Erik Rehl
m. Steven Severin
sd. Vincent Watts]