Akenfield (Original title)
Date: 02 March 1975 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Peter Hall
Synopsis: A study of the life of the people of a Suffolk village across three generations. Based on the book by Ronald Blythe. Music: Michael Tippett's Fantasia Concertante on a theme by Corelli.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Villages, Suffolk, Countryside
Releases
Date: 1974Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Sound
Date: 18 November 1974Country: United KingdomRelease type: FestivalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 98 mins Length: 8813 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Angle Films
Date: January 1975Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 98 mins Length: 8813 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: National Theatre
Date: 02 March 1975 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Peter Hall
Synopsis: A study of the life of the people of a Suffolk village across three generations. Based on the book by Ronald Blythe. Music: Michael Tippett's Fantasia Concertante on a theme by Corelli.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Villages, Suffolk, Countryside
Releases
Date: 1974Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Sound
Date: 18 November 1974Country: United KingdomRelease type: FestivalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 98 mins Length: 8813 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Angle Films
Date: January 1975Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 98 mins Length: 8813 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: National Theatre
Credits
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©: National Film Trustee Company Ltd, Made by: Angle Films Ltd., Produced by: Peter Hall, Rex Pyke, Production Manager: Richard Dobson, Accountant: Ernie Shepherd, Made by: people of Suffolk, Written by: Ronald Blythe, Based on Ronald Blythe's book: Ronald Blythe, Cameraman: Ivan Strasberg, Assistant Cameraman: John Metcalfe, Peter Ormrod, Edited by: Rex Pyke, Assistant Editor: Bob Gavin, Art Director: Ian Whittaker, Roger Christian, Costumes: Sally Bacon, Make-up and Hairdressing: Penny Bell, Hymns Arranged by: Ian Kellam, Hymns Sung by: Wandsworth School Choir, [Hymns Sung] Under the Direction of: Russell Burgess, Folk Music Arranged by: Dave Arthur, Toni Arthur, Radio Music by: Philip Goodhand-tait, Sound Recorded by: Bob Allen, Sound Recorded by: Peter Handford, Richard Laughton
Cast
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Peter Tuddenham (voice of old Tom), Garrow Shand (Tom Rouse), Peggy Cole (Dulcie Rouse), Barbara Tilney (Jean Quantrill), Lyn Brooks (Charlotte Rouse), Ida Page (Aunt Ida), Ted Dedman (Ted), Mollie Dedman (Mollie), Charlie Cornish, Charlie Whiting (Charlie), Robin Buckingham (Robin), Mary Hammond (young Dulcie Rouse), Ronald Blythe (vicar), F.O. Staddon (minister), Bob Wilson (farmer), Ethel Branton (Mrs Quantrill), Stanley Baxter (blacksmith), Reg Hall (policeman), Clifford Arbon, Ernie Cole, Ray Cornish, Victoria Peacock, Barry Martin, Neil Scopes, John Simpson, Ron Wood, Sidney Bedwell, Andy Chenery, Allan Cole, David Cole, John Meek, Walter Whatling, Roger Clark, Sean Wood, Wilfred Frost, Roger Burroughes, Jonathon Fox, Monty Hale, Phyllis Grant, Mark Thorpe, Fred Collins, Lucy Dedman, David Dedman, Helen Tydeman, Arthur Smith, Margaret Allen, Erica Zant-Boer, Violet Smith, Ena Bower, Claire Bateson, Kenneth Runnacles, Sarah Noakes, Romy Jacob, Cecil Barrell, Eunice Carpenter, Gladys de Brisay, Wendy Keable, Joan Piper, pupils of Charsfield School, pupils of Framlingham Secondary Modern School