Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema shot the film on IMAX 65 mm and 65 mm large format movie stock. The movie made extensive use of practical effects, such as employing thousands of extras, gathering boats that had participated in the real Dunkirk evacuation, and using genuine era-appropriate planes for aerial sequences.
"Dunkirk" premiered on 13 July 2017 at Odeon Leicester Square in London, England, and was released in the United Kingdom and United States on 21 July 2017 in IMAX, 70 mm and 35 mm film. The movie has grossed over $131 million worldwide and received praise for Nolan's screenplay and direction, acting, cinematography and Hans Zimmer's musical score.
Charlie Gard
Charlie Gard (4 August 2016 – 28 July 2017) was a British infant born Bedfont, London with a rare genetic condition known as mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome that causes progressive brain damage and muscle failure, including the muscles needed to breathe. There is no treatment, and it causes death in infancy.
His parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, brought him to the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in October 2016 because he was having trouble breathing, and he was put on mechanical ventilation.
His condition continued to deteriorate, and the genetic condition was diagnosed in November. The doctors and parents initially agreed to attempt an experimental treatment, but after the child had seizures that caused more brain damage in January, the doctors withdrew their support for trying the treatment because it was futile and would only prolong whatever pain the infant was suffering.
The doctors thought it would be best for the child to remove life support and allow him to die, but the parents still wanted to try the treatment.
This disagreement led to a series of court cases. The courts consistently supported GOSH's position, and the parents eventually dropped their challenge and agreed to withdraw life support. There was one more court case, about how to allow the child to die, which was decided on 27 July. On that day he was transferred to a hospice, and on the next day mechanical ventilation was withdrawn and he died at the age of 11 months and 24 days, a week before his first birthday.
A week after being placed in hospice care in London on 28 July 2017 at 11 months.
Inder Kumar
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Kumar died of a heart attack on 28 July 2017 in Mumbai, Maharastra at the age of 43.
John G. Morris
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Morris died on 28 July 2017 in Paris of heart failure at the age of 100.
Ovidio Messa
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Messa died on 27 July 2017 of pancreatic cancer in Alicante, Spain at the age of 64.
Gabriel Iglesias
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Iglesias was born Gabriel Jesus Iglesias in San Diego, California on July 15, 1976.
Donat, Switzerland
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Duvin
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Montreux
Montreux () is a municipality of the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
It is on Lake Geneva shoreline at the foot of the Alps and has a population, , of and nearly 90,000 in the agglomeration.
The Montreux Jazz Festival, annually in July since 1967.
In 1990, the Wakker Prize was awarded to Montreux.
The earliest settlement was a Late Bronze Age village at Baugy. Montreux lies on the northeast shore of Lake Geneva at the fork in the Roman road from Italy over the Simplon Pass, where the roads to the Roman capital of Aventicum and the road into Gaul through Besançon separated. This made it an important settlement already in Roman times.
In the 12th century, viticulture was introduced to the region, and the sunny slopes of the lake from Lavaux to Montreux became an important wine-growing region.
The region was subject to various princes, most notably the princes of Savoy from the south side of the lake. They unified the territory which comprises the present canton of Vaud and were generally popular sovereigns.
After the Burgundian Wars in the 15th century, the Swiss in Berne occupied the region without resistance, an indication of the weakness of the princes of Savoy. The Reformation made the region around Montreux and Vevey an attractive haven for Huguenots from Italy, who brought their artisanal skills and set up workshops and businesses.
In 1798, Napoleon liberated the region from the Bernese. In the 19th century, the tourist industry became a major commercial outlet, with the grand hotels of Montreux attracting the rich and cultured from Europe and America.
Starting in the 19th century there were three independent municipalities that shared a central authority. This county council was made up of four deputies from Le Châtelard, two from Les Planches and one from Veytaux. The church, the market hall of La Rouvenaz, the secondary school (the building was from 1872 and 1897) and the slaughter-house (1912) were all owned by the county council. Each municipality had its own taxes and a mayor. In 1962, the municipalities of Le Châtelard and Les Planches merged, while Veytaux remained independent.
Baugy, Brent, Caux, Chailly-sur-Montreux, Chamby, Chaulin, Chêne, Chernex, Clarens, Collonge, Cornaux, Crin, Fontanivent, Glion, Jor, Le Châtelard, Les Avants, Les Planches, Mont-Fleuri, Pallens, Pertit, Planchamp, Sonzier, Tavel, Territet, Vernex, Villard-sur-Chamby and Vuarennes.
The Köppen climate classification subtype for Montreux's climate is "Cfb" (Marine West Coast Climate/Oceanic climate).
Montreux is twinned with the towns of Menton, France and Wiesbaden, Germany, and with the city of Chiba in Japan.
Le Châtelard
Le Châtelard is a village and former municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
On 1 January 1962 the former municipalities of Le Châtelard and Les Planches merged into the new municipality of Montreux.
Les Planches
Les Planches is a village and former municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
On 1 January 1962 the former municipalities of Le Châtelard and Les Planches merged into the new municipality of Montreux.
Caux, Switzerland
Caux is a small village in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is part of the municipality of Montreux.
Clarens, Switzerland
Clarens is a village in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is part of the municipality of Montreux.
It was made famous throughout Europe by the immense success of the book La Nouvelle Héloïse by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Whilst in Clarens, the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky wrote his ballets "The Rite of Spring" and "Pulcinella" and in March 1878, Tchaikovsky wrote his "Violin Concerto".