Martin Scorsese first encountered the films of Powell and Pressburger when he was a child, sitting in front of the family TV. When their logo came up on screen, Scorsese says, “You knew you were in for fantasy, wonder, magic – real film magic.”

Now, in this documentary, he tells the story of his lifelong love-affair with their movies, including THE RED SHOES, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, BLACK NARCISSUS and THE TALES OF HOFFMANN.

Drawing on a rich array of archive material, Scorsese explores in full the collaboration between the Englishman Powell and the Hungarian Pressburger – two romantics and idealists, who thrived in the face of adversity during World War II but were eventually brought low by the film industry of the 1950s.