If the astonishing true-life story of British writer and poet Micky Burn MC had been written as a novel, readers would readily accept it as invented. Born in Mayfair in 1912, his father worked for the Royal family. He became the lover of the communist spy Guy Burgess, and would initially be taken in by Nazism, expressing an admiration for Hitler. In 1942, he took part in a daring commando assault on the fortified French port of St Nazaire, where he was captured, and he ended the war a POW in Colditz. He would latterly become a committed Marxist and be credited with... saving the life of Audrey Hepburn. American director Greg Olliver, who has previously documented the life of rock star Lemmy, started making this film in 2008, revisiting significant events and places in Burn s life. Burn is presented here as a candid and witty raconteur, with a sharp mind and vivid recollections. He died in 2010, which leaves Turned Towards the Sun as a fitting eulogy to a remarkable figure. [show more]
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Greg Olliver directs this documentary exploring the life of English writer Micky Burn. The feature follows Micky as he retraces the unusual events of his adult life in which he had an affair with the notorious Soviet Union communist spy Guy Burgess and later developed an adoration for Nazism and Adolf Hitler, who signed his copy of 'Mein Kampf' in 1936. But after changing his opinion of the party he volunteered for the independent companies and fought against Germany in the Second World War where he was captured as a prisoner of war during the St. Nazaire Raid and imprisoned in Colditz Castle. Following his eventual release at the end of the war he was credited with saving the life of a six-year-old Audrey Hepburn, began working as a reporter for The Times and became a committed Marxist.
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