On the Black Hill (1988)
On the Black Hill (1988)
DVDRip | AVI | 1024x576 | XviD @ 1500 Kbps | English MP3 @ 192 Kbps | 111 min | 1,33 Gb
Genre: Drama
DVDRip | AVI | 1024x576 | XviD @ 1500 Kbps | English MP3 @ 192 Kbps | 111 min | 1,33 Gb
Genre: Drama
Director: Andrew Grieve
Writers: Bruce Chatwin (novel), Andrew Grieve
Stars: Aled Baker, Rhys Baker, Iona Banks
Based on the famous novel by Bruce Chadwick this tale of twins growing up on a welsh hill farm in the 1900s is an excellent film. The film starts with the twins parents meeting at a church on the Wales/England border getting married and going to live on a rented farm called The Vision. The twins then become the focal point of the film, their lives on the farm and their unique bond with it and each other. Welsh nationalism is a recurring theme throughout the film and Anglo/Welsh relations are often strained due to the sale of farms at an auction and the outbreak of war when many Welsh people were drafted into the British army. To emphasise this point the family who start out as Church of England switch to Welsh chapel goers. The twins were real life brothers and most of the cast were recruited from the Hay on Wye area where it was filmed.
This is the kind of movie that picks some characters and show their entire life, from their childhood until their death. Here the story is about 2 twin brothers who are very different but are very close too and who have lived in Wales since their birth in 1900. The movie begins explaining how their parents met, fell in love and married and later it centers in the 2 brothers, how they grow, how the 2 World Wars affect their lives and their little problems on the Wales countryside. A marvelous and beautiful film, perfectly directed and acted. A must see.
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On the Black Hill (1988)
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