History's Future

Story

Synopsis

Losing his memory after a mugging, a man known only as 'MP' (Missing Person) leaves his home and sets out on a journey - in search not only for his memory but perhaps also for a new identity. MP finds himself confronted by a world in which there are no longer any certainties; an era of crisis on many levels. On his travels from country to country, portrayed via an associative image montage and through a series of strange, illuminating, sometimes comic encounters, MP attempts to gain insight into the complexity of life in the 21st-century West - into what commentators have called an age of 'rolling catastrophe'.

Director

Fiona Tan

Writers

Jonathan Romney, Fiona Tan

Language

English

Country

Germany, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands

Release date

28 January 2016

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Mark O'Halloran

  MP

• 

  Denis Lavant

  Lottery Ticket Seller

• 

  Anne Consigny

  Caroline

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  Hristos Passalis

  Yorgos

• 

  Manjinder Virk

  Phoebe

• 

  Rifka Lodeizen

  Anna

• 

  Brian Gleeson

  Driver

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  Johanna ter Steege

  Therapist