Film

Akenfield

7.619741h 38m12ADrama

Age rating: 12A
Director: Peter Hall
Year: 1974

As a 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.

Top cast

Stanley Baxter

Blacksmith

Ronald Blythe

The Vicar

Ethel Branton

Mrs. Quantrill

Lyn Brooks

Charlotte Rouse

Garrow Shand

Tom Rouse

Peggy Cole

Dulcie Rouse

Barbara Tilney

Jean Quantrill

Ida Page

Aunt Ida

Ted Dedman

Ted

Mollie Dedman

Mollie

Charlie Cornish

Charlie

Charlie Whiting

Charlie

Robin Buckingham

Robin

Alan Wright

Young Tom Rouse

Mary Hammond

Young Dulcie Rouse

F.O. Staddon

The Minister

Bob Wilson

Farmer

Reg Hall

Policeman

Directed by

Peter Hall

Written by

Ronald Blythe

Produced by

Rex Pyke, Peter Hall