9° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Feature Film Competition 1991
UN NOS OLA LEUAD
by Endaf Emlyn
Country: UK
Year: 1991
Duration: 98'
Fierce love, powerful laughter, a growing madness. A man's childhood is revealed through a series of recollections, culminating in an inexplicable murder. The Man and Boy, linked by their fate, tread a common path through a moonlit village and, ever closer to the dark mountain lake, where the murder was committed. Ghosts of a troubled past haunt their journey. Images of angels, rituals of Christianity and the ever present obsession of the Mother. The Boy, burdened with guilt, commits the murder which brings the Man to that same lake shore, seeking atonement. Suicide brings peace and the hope of redemption.
"The film is based upon a Welsh novel of the writer Caradod Prichard which had an immense effect on me when I read it as a teenager in the late fifties. The book is written in the first person, but with a subtle shifting of perspective as the main characters, (the boy and the man he eventually becomes) experience and contemplate the same events. Maintaining their parallel narrative was a key feature of the film structure." (Endaf Emlyn)
Biography
film director
Endaf Emlyn
Endaf Emlyn from Pwllheli, North Wales, worked as a scriptwriter and musician before becoming a film director He is Welsh-speaking and since establishing Gaucho Productions in 1984 has concentrated his work in the developing Welsh film industry. He presently lives in Cardiff but draws on North Wales, its landscape and its people for his inspiration.
FILMOGRAFIA
Gaucho (1984), Bali, a Pattern of Life (doc., 1985), The Clock (1986), The Storms of August (1988), Un nos ola leuad (One Full Moon, 1991).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Endaf Emlyn.
Plot: dal romanzo di Caradog Prichard.
Director of photography: Ashley Rowe.
Art director: Ray Price.
Editor: Chris Lawrence.
Music: Mark Thomas.
Sound: Richard Dyer.
Cast and characters: Dyfan Roberts (l'Uomo), Tudur Roberts (il Ragazzo), Betsan Llwyd (la Madre), Delyth Einir, Cian Ciaran, Dilwyn Vaughan Thomas, Robin Griffith, Stewart Jones, Michael Povey.
Director of Production: John Hefin.
Production company: Gaucho Films, Unit 12, Royal Stuart Workshop, Adelaide Place, Cardiff, tel. 0222490589, fax 0222512508.
Foreign sales agent: Jane Balfour Films Ltd., Burghley House, 35 Fortess Road, London NW5, tel. 071-2675392, fax 0712674241.
Plot: dal romanzo di Caradog Prichard.
Director of photography: Ashley Rowe.
Art director: Ray Price.
Editor: Chris Lawrence.
Music: Mark Thomas.
Sound: Richard Dyer.
Cast and characters: Dyfan Roberts (l'Uomo), Tudur Roberts (il Ragazzo), Betsan Llwyd (la Madre), Delyth Einir, Cian Ciaran, Dilwyn Vaughan Thomas, Robin Griffith, Stewart Jones, Michael Povey.
Director of Production: John Hefin.
Production company: Gaucho Films, Unit 12, Royal Stuart Workshop, Adelaide Place, Cardiff, tel. 0222490589, fax 0222512508.
Foreign sales agent: Jane Balfour Films Ltd., Burghley House, 35 Fortess Road, London NW5, tel. 071-2675392, fax 0712674241.
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