Oed yr Addewid

Do Not Go Gentle

It is March 1997 and after eighteen years of Tory rule, Britain is at a political cross-roads. The prime minister of a beleaguered government decides to go to the country in a vain attempt at persuading the electorate that his party is worthy of a fifth term in office. Meanwhile, one William Davies, widower and retired quarryman, has arrived at a cross-roads of his own. A lifelong socialist, he feels angry and resentful towards a gouvernment that has all but abandoned him in his old age. Having been persuaded by his children to buy his council house in the booming eighties, he discovers that this selfsame government, which made such a virtue of home ownership some ten years earlier, now expects him to sell the property in order to pay for his care should he ever have to go into a nursing home. When William Davies walks out of his council house one morning, he is putting into action a desperate and hair-brained scheme which he thinks will outflank the system. The story is set in the remote Welsh-speaking heartland of North West Wales and takes place during the weeks leading up to the general election of 1997, when the Conservative party is finally removed from power after eighteen years in government.

United Kingdom - 2001 - 1 h 26 mn - 35 mm • 1,85 - Colour

Réalisation
Emlyn Williams
Scénario
Emlyn Williams
Image
Jimmy Dibbling
Son
Tim Walker
Décors
Huw V Roberts
Montage
Willy Oswald
Interprétation
Stewart Jones, Gwenno Hodgkins, Arwel Gruffydd, Gwyn Vaughan, Rhian Cadwaladr, Catrin Dafydd, Grey Evans, Valmai Jones

Production
S4C,
Parc Ty Glas, Llanishen,
CF14 5DU Cardiff, Royaume-Uni
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Ventes
S4C,
Parc Ty Glas, Llanishen,
CF14 5DU Cardiff, Royaume-Uni
Tél : +44 29 2074 1488
Fax : +44 2920 754 444
E-mail : s4c@s4c.co.uk