Boring bank manager Peplow arrives by the early-morning train in the small Yorkshire Dales town of Great Minden on the day of their annual Feast (fair). He chances to meet Herbert Ruskin, who used to be in the same RAF squadron and had lost his legs in a wartime flying accident ten years earlier. A cripple, Ruskin now spends all his days looking out of his window, passing witty but cynical comments on everything the locals do. As the day wears on and the fairground music gets louder, it gradually emerges that Peplow, normally a staid and unemotional man, has come to Great Minden on a macabre mission... involving the use of his service revolver! And it is no coincidence that he has come on the day of the Feast.

Produced for the National Film Board of Canada

A hymn to love and life, this film without commentary establishes through images a striking parallel between the serenity that times of peace bring to men and the anguish caused by the disasters and horrors of war. Archival footage, in black and white, was used to illustrate the moments of combat while an extremely agile camera captured in color the rural setting in which a young couple of lovers frolic. Hymne à l'amour et à la vie, ce film sans commentaire établit par l'image un saisissant parallèle entre la sérénité qu'apportent aux hommes les temps de paix et l'angoisse qu'engendrent les désastres et les horreurs de la guerre. Des métrages d'archives, en noir et blanc, ont été utilisés pour illustrer les moments de combat tandis qu'une caméra extrêmement agile a capté en couleurs le décor champêtre dans lequel s'ébat un jeune couple d'amoureux.

Itisthe1980s,thethirdworldwarhappenedsoonafterthesecondendedandBritainwasdevastatedbynuclearweapons.ThelargesttownisShrewsburyandthecountryisentirelypastoral.AfteranimportantmineralisfoundintheSouthDownsthethreegreatpowers,USSR,AmericaandIndiasendrepresentativestoorganizetheminingofthemineral.Duetotravelproblemsinthisnon-industrialcountrytheyhavetostaywithalocalfamilyformuchlongerthanexpected.Duringthestaytheyareeachaskeddifficultquestionsabouttheirlivesandthesocietiestheycomefrom.Theinhabitantsofthenownon-industrialBritainhavenodislikeoftheirpastoralexistence.ThetitleoftheplaycomesfromaproductionofMid-summerNight'sDreamthatisbeingproducedbytwomembersofthecast.

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