The Rocket Post (2004)
May 13, 2004Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Ulrich Thomsen
Gerhard Zucher
Jimmy Yuill
James MacLeod
Shauna Macdonald
Catriona Mackay
Gary Lewis
Jimmy Roach
Kevin McKidd
Thomas McKinnon
Stephen Whittaker
Director
Stephen Whittaker
Director
Eddie Marsan
Heinz Dombrowsky
James MacInnes
Writer
John Wood
Sir Wilson Ramsay
William Morrissey
Writer
Patrick Malahide
Charles Ilford
Steve Clark-Hall
Producer
Clive Russell
Angus Mackay
Mark Shorrock
Producer
Ian McNeice
Alex Miln
Nigel Clarke
Composer
Alastair MacLennan
Paul Maclellan
Tim Barlow
Hector McDougal
Ralph Riach
Old Donald
Brian Pettifer
Reverend Shand
Malcolm Storry
Captain Kultz
Hannah Tiffin
Maid
Roderic Culver
Captain Von Struge
Robert Farr
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Andie Derrick
Foley Artist
Peter Burgis
Foley Artist
Matt Grimes
Foley Editor
Richard Greatrex
Director of Photography
Liz Griffiths
Set Decoration
Steve Carter
Art Direction
Michael Csányi-Wills
Original Music Composer
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Wiki.
The Rocket Post is a 2004 British drama film directed by Stephen Whittaker and starring Ulrich Thomsen, Shauna Macdonald, Kevin McKidd and Patrick Malahide. It is set on a remote Scottish island during the late 1930s. The arrival of German rocket scientist Gerhard Zucker is not initially welcomed by the inhabitants of the island.
The film was shot in 2001, but its release was delayed by several years. Additional footage was shot in 2005, and the film was given a limited release in Scotland the following year.
The story is very loosely based on experiments in 1934 by the German inventor Gerhard Zucker to provide a postal service to the island of Scarp by rocket mail. Another fictionalised account of the experiment formed the basis of a 2001 film, also called The Rocket Post, which was filmed on Taransay. The film's original score was composed by Nigel Clarke & Michael Csanyi-Wills and recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London.