Adelaide Film Festival | Films | I told you I was ill: Spike milligan (2005)

I told you I was ill: Spike milligan

Cathy Henkel, Australia 2005

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Funded by the AFFIF, I told you I was ill: Spike Milligan is an intimate and deeply personal portrait of Spike Milligan through the eyes of his brother Desmond, his daughters Jane, Sile and Laura, and his third wife Shelagh. Each saw a very different side of this complex and multifaceted man who forever changed English comedy and blew raspberries at the notions of decorum and deference. Through their eyes we see Spike as a father, a big brother, a deeply troubled and difficult husband and a man who trod the thin line between genius and debilitating depression.

Cathy Henkel, Producer Jeff Canin and members of the Milligan family will be guests of the Festival

Meet The Filmmaker Session

Facilitated by the Australian Film Television & Radio School, there will be the opportunity to talk with Director/Producer Cathy Henkel , Producer Jeff Canin and Spike's Two Daughters and Brother Laura, Jane & Desmond Milligan in a Q&A session in the cinema immediately following the screening of this on Tuesday 22 February at 9:00 PM at Greater Union - Cinema 1