Armageddon Time: film featuring Trump family is attack on capitalism, says maker

New movie set in 80s US and starring Succession star Jeremy Strong with Jessica Chastain as Donald Trump's sister, traces fault lines of political and social division back to Reagan era

A new film set in 1980s New York, in which Donald Trump's property mogul father, Fred, and high-achieving lawyer sister Maryanne appear as characters is a direct attack on late-stage capitalism, according to its principal cast and director.

Armageddon Time, which is premiering at the Cannes film festival and stars Succession's Jeremy Strong alongside Oscar-winner Jessica Chastain as Maryanne Trump, in a cameo, is set during the run-up to the election of Ronald Reagan as president and examines the layers of privilege that determine the future of children attending different schools in the same city.