Sunset Song
Synopsis
Set in the early 20th century, 'Sunset Song' begins with the suicide attempt of a poverty stricken woman in Scotland, broken by repeated childbirths, who kills herself and poisons her twin babies. The story follows one of the woman’s surviving daughters, Chris Guthrie, who must manage the farm after her mother’s death, and, after her father, who has had a stroke, becomes bedridden. But when love comes to Chris, she must send her man off to the Great War and manage the farm in a land about to be changed forever by the onset of technology and war. How can we bear time, or subdue nature? We cannot. We can only endure...
Toronto International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2015
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 135 mins
- Director
- Terence Davies
- Producer
- Roy Boulter, Sol Papadopoulos, Nicolas Steil
- Executive Producer
- Bob Last; Co-Executive Producer: Alice De Sousa
- Editor
- David Charap
- Screenwriter
- Terence Davies (screenplay), Lewis Grassic Gibbon (novel)
- Director of Photography
- Michael McDonough
- Production Designer
- Andy Harris
- Sound
- Marc Thill
- Music
- Gast Waltzing
- Principal Cast
- Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie, Daniela Nardini, Ian Pirie, Jack Greenlees, Douglas Rankine, Trish Mullin, Linda McLaughlin, Ron Donachie
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 17th September 2015
