Rarities of British cinema
The Lost People: how an immersive play became a 1940s British film about wartime displacement
Based on an avant-garde wartime play, The Lost People was scripted by the pioneering filmmaker Muriel Box (who also directed some sequences) and presents an unusual depiction of the turmoil of post-war displacement.
By Josephine Botting
The Lost People: how an immersive play became a 1940s British film about wartime displacement