| Joy Division | |
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| Directed by | Reg Traviss |
| Written by | Reg Traviss Rosemary Mason |
| Produced by | Kim Leggatt |
| Starring | Tom Schilling Ed Stoppard Bernadette Heerwagen Bernard Hill Ricci Harnett Michelle Gayle Ram John Holder Sybille Gebhardt Marlon Kittel |
| Cinematography | Bryan Loftus |
| Edited by | Peter Cartwright |
| Music by | George Kallis |
Production companies | Kingsway Films Dreamtool Entertainment Hungarian Film Connection |
| Distributed by | Momentum Pictures (UK) |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Countries | United Kingdom Germany Hungary |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $6,000,000 |
Joy Division is a 2006 British-German-Hungarian film directed by Reg Traviss. The story is a fictional biopic which follows the life of a boy in Germany at the end of World War II into his adulthood in Russia and London during the Cold War. The script was written by Reg Traviss and Rosemary Mason and went into production in 2004 after completion of Traviss' short film JD Pilot in 2003, based upon the same script and which also starred Ed Stoppard in the role of adult Thomas. Joy Division was shown for the film industry at the Cannes Film Festival European Film Market and at the American Film Market in 2005. It was invited to screen at the Copenhagen International Film Festival in 2006 and was released theatrically in the United Kingdom in November 2006.