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1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 135 min.)) : sd., col. |
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digital rda |
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video file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Credits |
Directed by Terence Davies. |
Cast |
Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie, Mark Bonnar. |
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Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie. |
Summary |
Sunset Song is Terence Davies' intimate epic of hope, tragedy and love at the dawning of the Great War. A young woman's endurance against the hardships of rural Scottish life, based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, told with gritty poetic realism by Britain's greatest living auteur. The film takes place during the early years of the twentieth century, with the conflicts and choices a young woman experiences reflecting the struggle between tradition and change; a struggle that continues to resonate today. Set in a rural community, Sunset Song is driven by the young heroine Chris and her intense passion for life, for the unsettling Ewan and for the unforgiving land. The First World War reaches out from afar, bringing the modern world to bear on the community in the harshest possible way, yet in a final moment of grace, Chris endures, now a woman of remarkable strength who is able to draw from the ancient land in looking to the future. Sunset Song is at once epic in emotional scale and deeply romantic at its core, given power by Terence Davies' unflinching poetic realism. |
Audience |
Rated R. |
System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Subject |
Rural women -- Scotland -- Drama.
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Crofters -- Scotland -- Drama.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Scotland -- Drama.
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Scotland -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Drama.
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Scotland -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama.
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Genre |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Added Author |
Davies, Terence, 1945- film director, screenwriter.
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Boulter, Roy, 1964- film producer.
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Papadopoulos, Solon, film producer.
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Steil, Nicolas, film producer.
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Deyn, Agyness, 1983- actor.
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Mullan, Peter, actor.
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Guthrie, Kevin (Actor), actor.
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Bonnar, Mark, actor.
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Waltzing, Gast, 1956- composer (expression)
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Motion picture adaptation of (work): Gibbon, Lewis Grassic, 1901-1935.
Sunset song.
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hoopla digital.
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Added Title |
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's sunset song |
Music No. |
MWT12008256 |
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