Tues 5th March 2002, 7:30pm Horse Hospital, London.   Screening: It Happened Here (Uncensored version) Kevin Brownlow, who these days is a renowned movie historian and archivist, was just 18 when he conceived "It Happened Here" an alternate-history film depicting what life in London would have been like if Nazi troops had conquered England in July 1940. He worked in collaboration with Andrew Mollo his Nazi regalia-collecting school friend (who eventually went on to design Imperial costumes for the "Star Wars" films) for nearly ten years to realise the project.   Brownlow and Mollo started the film in 1956 as an exercise in "sheer adolescent exhibitionism". Though they originally saw the project as a low-budget exploitation film on what a Nazi-occupied Britain would be like, "It Happened Here" evolved into a remarkable sociopolitical treatise. The film has been championed for its flights of historical imagination, which chillingly juxtapose German Nazism and English tradition.   Much praised for its documentary realism -- the fruit of painstaking period reconstruction by Mollo -- "It Happened Here" conveys the sights and sounds of a Nazified England with disturbing authenticity. Shooting on a shoestring, deploying guerilla movie-making tactics, Brownlow and Mollo only finished the film in 1964 (after gaining behind-the-scenes support from Tony Richardson and Stanley Kubrick). Despite its low-budget origins and cast of mostly volunteer actors, "It Happened Here" possesses enough epic scope, scathing social insight, and haunting images to truly be considered a classic-- which is remarkable, considering that it was almost never seen.   Thanks to the expert black-and-white lensing of cameraman Peter Sushitzky (who later went on to be cinematographer for "The Empire Strikes Back" and "The Man in the Iron Mask") and some judicious editing by Brownlow, "It Happened Here" perfectly captures the look-and-feel of actual documentary footage from the Second World War.   The most controversial aspect of "It Happened Here" was a seven-minute scene in which a real British neo-Nazi, Colin Jordan, gives an incendiary (and ad-libbed) speech during a funeral. A number of Jewish groups found the scene offensive and accused the two filmmakers of providing a soapbox for such hate-mongers to voice their anti-Semetic rhetoric. As a result this seven-minute sequence was removed from the British release of the film.   Talk/Q and A: Kevin Brownlow We were delighted that Kevin Brownlow made a rare public appearance to talk about the making of the movie, its public reception and subsequent censorship. Followed by a Q and A session.   top