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Title: A Month in the Country (1987)
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| Colin Firth | ... | Birkin | |
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John Atkinsons | ... | Old Man on Train |
| Jim Carter | ... | Ellerbeck | |
| Patrick Malahide | ... | Reverend Keach | |
| Kenneth Branagh | ... | James Moon | |
| Richard Vernon | ... | Colonel Hebron | |
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Tim Barker | ... | Mossop |
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Vicki Arundale | ... | Kathy |
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Martin O'Neil | ... | Edgar |
| Natasha Richardson | ... | Alice Keach | |
| Tony Haygarth | ... | Douthwaite | |
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Eileen O'Brien | ... | Mrs. Ellerbeck |
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Elizabeth Anson | ... | Lucy Sykes |
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Barbara Marten | ... | Mrs. Sykes |
| Ken Kitson | ... | Mr. Sykes (as Kenneth Kitson) | |
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Five centuries ago, a mural was created in a country church in the north of England, and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Reverend Mr. Keach tells World War I veteran Tom Birken, who will spend a month in the country restoring the mural. Another veteran, James Moon, is looking for the grave of an ancestor of the patroness of the church who fought in the Crusades. The rector's wife, Alice, comes to see the mural and later visits Birken's bell tower abode, bringing a basket of apples. Will she open the book in which he has pressed the yellow rose she gave him earlier? Written by Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
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4 December 1987 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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Theme from second movement
Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
(uncredited)
Played by the Reverend Keach on the violin
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Film historian Nick Redman mentions in his commentary included in the BFI edition of the movie that, at the time of its original release, this was said to be a movie "starring two nobodies". See more »Goofs
The record being played is a 33 1/3 RPM RCA "shaded dog" label record, not a 78 RPM as should have been for the post WW I period. See more »Soundtracks
Violin Concerto in E minorTheme from second movement
Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
(uncredited)
Played by the Reverend Keach on the violin
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This is a true gem of a film. Only those however who have an empathy for the destruction of World War One, and a sensitivity about how moving religious themes can be, will really appreciate the aspects of the film which make it timeless. It is deliberately slow and careful in its pace, and the contrasts between Church and Chapel, working and upper class, and social mobility makes it a film I have always found very moving. The use of the Schubert Mass as a musical backdrop at key points emphasises the cathartic journey Birkin makes. Indeed, his visit to the church as an old man demonstrates the way he has been cleansed of the mud of Flanders.