Akenfield

Akenfield

98 mins | Drama | Nov. 18, 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.

Akenfield

98 mins | Drama | Nov. 18, 1974

Akenfield
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.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Angle Films Limited
Original title Akenfield
Directors Peter Hall
Writers Ronald Blythe

Cast

Stanley Baxter

as Blacksmith

Ronald Blythe

as The Vicar

Ethel Branton

as Mrs. Quantrill

Lyn Brooks

as Charlotte Rouse

Garrow Shand

as Tom Rouse

Peggy Cole

as Dulcie Rouse

Barbara Tilney

as Jean Quantrill

Ida Page

as Aunt Ida

Ted Dedman

as Ted

Mollie Dedman

as Mollie

Charlie Cornish

as Charlie

Charlie Whiting

as Charlie

Robin Buckingham

as Robin

Alan Wright

as Young Tom Rouse

Mary Hammond

as Young Dulcie Rouse

F.O. Staddon

as The Minister

Peter Tuddenham

as Old Tom (voiceover)