Akenfield

Name: Akenfield
Genre: Drama
Released: 1974-11-18
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Garrow Shand, Peggy Cole, Barbara Tilney

1974
1h 38m

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

152

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Drama

As the young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home a... Read allAs the young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.As the young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

152

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Made over a year so they could include all the seasons.

Quotes
Charlie: He said "Now what sort of husband was he"? "Oh", she said "one of the best. You couldn't wish for a better one". She said, "We used to lie in bed, Sunday mornings, and hear the church bells ringing. We used to go up with the ding and come down with the dong". And she'd say "if it hadn't been for that fire engine going by, at the bloody time, he'd be alive now".

Soundtracks
Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli
Written by Michael Tippett
Played by The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Conducted by Neville Marriner
recorded by Argo Record Company

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An over-rated "arty" film?

I watched this film when it first came out in 1974 as there was a lot of publicity about what a revolutionary film it was and it was set locally to where I was living at the time, Cambridge, England.

I'm afraid that I was not impressed.

Pretty pictures and an "arty" film, but nothing much happens in any sort of way for the full the full length of the film and you are left coming out thinking "what was that all about?".

If you like pictures of rural scenery and are put off by action or complicated plot you will love this film.

A film to take you back in time...