Movie Description
Storm Front in Mayo
(2019)Overview
Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.
Featured Crew
- Director : Gerry Gregg
- Producer : Nuala Cunningham
- Writer : Gerry Gregg
- Editor : Juangus Dinsmore
- Cast : Eva Sweeney,Colin Wright,Mike Johnson,John Downes,Antony Beevor,Robert Gerwarth,Susan Eisenhower,Joseph Skelly,Richard G. Trefry,Maureen Flavin Sweeney,Gerald Fleming,David McCullagh,Catherine Ross,Jeremy Green,Rodney Teck,John C. Sweeney,Vincent Sweeney,Richard Callaghan,Joe Cattini,Adolf Hitler,Bernard Montgomery,Dwight D. Eisenhower,Éamon de Valera,Erwin Rommel,Franklin D. Roosevelt,James Stagg,Joseph Goebbels,Joseph Stalin,Winston Churchill
Cast
Young Maureen Flavin Sweeney
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Captain James Stagg
Met Éireann Telephone Operator
Self - Historian
Self - Historian
Self - Eisenhower's Granddaughter
Self - Historian
Self - Retired US Army Lt. General
Self - Weather Observer (1944)
Self - Meteorologist
Self - Journalist
Self - British Met Office Archivist
Self - British Military Police Colonel
Self - Climate Researcher
Self - Climate Researcher
Self - Lighthouse Keeper
Self - Royal MP Museum Curator
Self - D-Day Veteran
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Self - British Military (archive footage)
Self - US Military (archive footage)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Self - German Military (archive footage)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Self - Meteorologist (archive footage)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
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Facts
Original TitleStorm Front in Mayo
Status Released
Release Information
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2019-05-28
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 00h 53m
Homepagehttp://www.newdecade.ie/portfolio/storm-front-in-mayo-the-story-of-the-d-day-forecast
Production CompaniesNew Decade TV and Film,ARTE GEIE,RTÉ
Genres
- Documentary
- History
- TV Movie
