Akenfield (1974)

Directors

Peter Hall

The story

The central character Tom is a young man living in a cottage with his widowed mother in the 1970s, in a Suffolk village (the fictitious Akenfield). The film depicts the few days surrounding the funeral of Tom's grandfather, who was born and grew up in the village in the early 1900s, experienced much poverty and hard work, fought in the First World War (when he lost most of his comrades), returned, made a failed attempt to escape the village by walking to Newmarket for a job, took a wife in the village and lived in a tied cottage on the farmer's estate for the rest of his life. His son, Tom's father, was killed in the Second World War, and…

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