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Robert Mullan (also Bob Mullan) is a British film director, writer and producer. He is also an author. He wrote and directed Letters to Sofija, Gitel and We Will Sing. He has produced over 40 documentaries, for the BBC, Granada, Anglia Television, Channel4 and for broadcasters outside the UK.
Robert Mullan is a British-Irish filmmaker who has made features and documentaries on various topics, such as spirituality, culture and politics. He has won one award and been nominated for another, and has worked in several countries and languages.
- Director, Writer, Producer
- Robert Mullan
- ‘He Tried to Do Something Different’
- The Real R.D. Laing
- Working with David Tennant
Laing, by then in his late 30s, was already known for The Divided Self, a book which aimed to make mental illness comprehensible to a mainstream audience, but his Kingsley Hall idea would put him at loggerheads with the conventional wisdom of the time. “He tried to have a dozen or so people in a house, who were considered a danger to themselves and...
In the 1980s he wrote to Laing because he wanted to “write his life story”. And far from the perception of the fast-living hell-raiser, he found an ageing Laing at peace – if not materialistically wealthy – living in a small apartment in Austria. “He’d just stopped drinking. So to me he was just a calm, intellectual, humourous man,” Mullan recalls....
When the film was revived, Mullan says the casting was like a jigsaw puzzle: “You have to get one big, firm piece in place. And that piece was David Tennant. Once he got involved it was much easier to get the others.” Of course, the Broadchurch star was able to consult Mullan about the real Laing, although their goal was never to mimic the psychiat...
Apr 22, 2021 · Robert Mullan was a co-owner of Tun Tavern, a Philadelphia inn where the Continental Congress met to discuss naval affairs. He was commissioned as a first lieutenant of the new Continental Marines in 1775 and served on the flagship Alfred during the first amphibious landing in the Bahamas.
Aug 30, 2013 · Laiskai Sofijai: Directed by Robert Mullan. With Marija Korenkaite, Rokas Zubovas, Arturas Aleksejevas, Rugile Alytaite. Based on a true story, the love affair between a Lithuanian genius Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis and Sofija, the woman he adored.
Apr 6, 2017 · Mad to Be Normal: Directed by Robert Mullan. With David Tennant, Elisabeth Moss, Michael Gambon, Gabriel Byrne. During the 1960s, a renegade Scottish psychiatrist courts controversy within his profession for his approach to the field, and for the unique community he creates for his patients to inhabit.
Nov 10, 2015 · The story dates to late November 1775, when newly commissioned Captains Samuel Nicholas and Robert Mullan supposedly organized the first Marine Corps muster at Tun Tavern, a popular watering hole...
