Akenfield (Relaxed)

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These screenings are designed to provide a welcoming and inclusive cinema experience. We have created a warm, safe space where you’ll be able to enjoy a film with the sound a little softer and the lights left on low. As well as this, we will continue with some distancing in the screen, to ensure that nobody impinges on your big screen experience.

Tom (Garrow Shand) is a young farmer who lives in Akenfield, a small village in England. In 1974, Tom attends his grandfather’s funeral and finds himself questioning his oppressive family history and his role within it. Will he, like his grandfather and father before him, never escape the secure but dreary existence that farming life in Akenfield holds in store for him? Or will he take a chance and venture out into the world beyond and possibly suffer as a consequence?

Director

Peter Hall

Cast

Ethel Branton, Ronald Blythe, Stanley Baxter, Robin Buckingham, Bob Wilson, Reg Hall, Lyn Brooks, Ted Dedman, Peggy Cole