Films
Sunset Song
Director(s): | Terence Davies |
Producer(s): |
IRIS PRODUCTIONS Hurricane Films (UK), SellOut Pictures (UK) |
Script: | Terence Davies |
Year: | 2016 |
Form: | FICTION - Feature film |
Genre: | Drama |
Original version: | English |
Running time: | 135' |
Synopsis
Set in the early 20th century, Chris Guthrie, a farmer’s daughter in north-eastern Scotland struggles for love amid hardship and family misfortune. After her mother, a poverty-stricken woman broken by repeated childbirths, poisons herself and her baby twins the resilient young Chris must manage the farm in her absence. When her father has a stroke and becomes bedridden, though also eager for an incestuous relationship, she is left on the land by her closest ally and friend, her brother. Finally she finds love, only to wave her new husband off to the Great War. She remains on the farm, connected to a land about to be changed forever by the onset of technology and war.
Casting
Agyness Deyn
Peter Mullan
Kevin Guthrie
Julian Nest
Claire Johnston Cauldwell
John Molloy
Gilbert Johnston
Anne Comfort
Crew
DOP: Michael McDonough
Production design: Andy Harris
Costume design: Uli Simon
Make up: Katja Reinert
Still Photographer: Ricardo Vaz Palma
Sound engineer: Marc Thill
Nominations & Awards
- Selected at Toronto International Film Festival
- Online Film Critics Society Awards 2016 - WON "OFCS AWARD BEST NON U.S. RELEASE"
- International Cinephile Society Awards 2016 - WON "ICS AWARD"
- British Independent Film Awards 2015 (GB)- "MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER": AGYNESS DEYN
- London Film Festival 2015 (GB)- NOMINATED "BEST FILM OFFICIAL COMPETITION": TERENCE DAVIES
- San Sebastian International Film Festival 2015 (ESP) - NOMINATED GOLDEN SEASHELL "BEST FILM": TERENCE DAVIES
International sales
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