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Akenfield is a film made by Peter Hall in 1974, based loosely upon the book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe (1969). Blythe himself has a cameo role as the vicar and all other parts are played by real-life villagers who improvised their own dialogue. There are no professional actors in the piece.
4.17. 766 ratings91 reviews. In this rich, rare book, which John Updike called "exquisite", forty-nine men and women, from a blacksmith and a bell ringer to the local vet and a gravedigger, speak to us directly, in honest and evocative monologues, of their works and days in the rural country of Suffolk. Composed in the late 1960's, Blythe's ...
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18 de nov. de 1974 · Akenfield: Directed by Peter Hall. With Garrow Shand, Peggy Cole, Barbara Tilney, Lyn Brooks. 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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- Drama
- Peter Hall
- 1974-11-18
22 de sept. de 2015 · Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpiece of twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way of life.
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1 de mar. de 2010 · Akenfield : portrait of an English village : Blythe, Ronald, 1922- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
24 de dic. de 2017 · Ronald Blythe’s account of a fictional Suffolk village painted a vivid picture of 1960s country life. A new study will explore how such communities are dealing with the relentless spread of city ...
9 de oct. de 2015 · The new edition is out now from NYRB Classics. First published in 1969, Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield is an enormously vivid and affecting portrait of life in one village in the southeast of England ...
