FILM ABOUT MUNICH IS COMING OUT
A new film about Munich air disaster has dramatically reconstructed the crash and its aftermath.
The BBC1 production - Surviving Disaster: Munich Air Crash - is the first screen drama to show what happened in the tragedy of February 6 1958.
A total of 23 people died, including eight Manchester United players - named the Busby Babes after manager Sir Matt Busby.
Filmed in Lithuania, the drama tells the story of the team's fateful last journey, including harrowing scenes at the crash site and Rechts der Isar Hospital in Munich.
The M.E.N. has been given exclusive access to the hour-long drama, due to be screened next month. It features Maurice Roeves as Sir Matt, Branwell Donaghey as goalkeeper Harry Gregg and John McArdle as sportswriter Frank Taylor, the only journalist to survive.
It is based on eyewitness accounts and interviews with some of the surviving players, including Gregg, Albert Scanlon, Kenny Morgan and Bill Foulkes. But both United and survivor Bobby Charlton decided they did not want to be involved with the film.
BBC series producer Greg Lanning said the TV team had taken great care in dealing with what he acknowledged was "a sensitive subject".
He said: "We tried to contact everybody who was alive. Perhaps understandably, Bobby Charlton doesn't really want to talk about it or be reminded of it. But there were other players who we did speak to.
"And we either have, or we're in the process of, contacting all the relatives we can find to alert them to the fact that the film is going to be on." The crash wreck was constructed on a Lithuanian airfield with the inside of the plane built on a set. A combination of a model and computer- generated imagery was also involved, plus the cockpit of a real plane in a museum.
The BBC1 production - Surviving Disaster: Munich Air Crash - is the first screen drama to show what happened in the tragedy of February 6 1958.
A total of 23 people died, including eight Manchester United players - named the Busby Babes after manager Sir Matt Busby.
Filmed in Lithuania, the drama tells the story of the team's fateful last journey, including harrowing scenes at the crash site and Rechts der Isar Hospital in Munich.
The M.E.N. has been given exclusive access to the hour-long drama, due to be screened next month. It features Maurice Roeves as Sir Matt, Branwell Donaghey as goalkeeper Harry Gregg and John McArdle as sportswriter Frank Taylor, the only journalist to survive.
It is based on eyewitness accounts and interviews with some of the surviving players, including Gregg, Albert Scanlon, Kenny Morgan and Bill Foulkes. But both United and survivor Bobby Charlton decided they did not want to be involved with the film.
BBC series producer Greg Lanning said the TV team had taken great care in dealing with what he acknowledged was "a sensitive subject".
He said: "We tried to contact everybody who was alive. Perhaps understandably, Bobby Charlton doesn't really want to talk about it or be reminded of it. But there were other players who we did speak to.
"And we either have, or we're in the process of, contacting all the relatives we can find to alert them to the fact that the film is going to be on." The crash wreck was constructed on a Lithuanian airfield with the inside of the plane built on a set. A combination of a model and computer- generated imagery was also involved, plus the cockpit of a real plane in a museum.