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Penda's Fen

1974

Action / Comedy / Drama / Horror / Mystery

Penda's Fen

1974

Action / Comedy / Drama / Horror / Mystery

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7.1/10 · 1.2K

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Plot summary

Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and politics, and comes to terms with his sexuality.

Director

Alan Clarke

Top cast

Ron Smerczak as Joel

Ian Hogg as Arne

Graham Leaman as Sir Edward Elgar

Joyce Grundy as Mrs. Gisbourne

Tech specs

720p.BLU 1080p.BLU

630.69 MB

968*720

English 2.0

25 fps

1 hr 29 min

Seeds 5

1.33 GB

1440*1072

English 2.0

25 fps

1 hr 29 min

Seeds 32

Comments 5

josspelvisrestley 1576 days ago

Spanish subs please :-)

bestshot 3434 days ago

Thanks for sharing

sawctor 3479 days ago

Can't find subtitles for this anywhere. Not even in english. Anyone?

charil20 3556 days ago

Spanish subtitles, please? I can't find them!! :(

irvingzarate 3759 days ago

I came across this by accident. Boy, am I glad i finally found where that creepy demon gif comes from!

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IMDb reviews

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7 / 10

This tv movie/play definitely hit on topics among

Wiccaburr

This tv movie/play definitely hit on topics among religion and politics with a sprinkling of "becoming a man" mixed in there. Definitely sets the date of this…

10 / 10

Journey to Adulthood

EdgarST

I believe that British director Alan Clarke (1935-1990) died without us in Panama having any idea of his work and his reputation as a radical and iconoclastic…

I believe that British director Alan Clarke (1935-1990) died without us in Panama having any idea of his work and his reputation as a radical and iconoclastic man within theater, TV, and cinema production in the United Kingdom. When the first video clubs appeared, I remember renting and seeing «Rita, Sue, and Bob Too» (1987), which made a very good impression on me; but it is not until now that I see another of his films: «Penda's Fen», made for the BBC. On the internet you can find information about Clarke, who was inclined to social realism and center of controversy and censorship for his television production. Clarke understood the medium as a very useful way to educate and alert the voting masses, instead of drugging them with "reality shows", talent hunts, violent (fast) movies, game shows or newscasts plagued with yellowish and red notes. In his work, he made films about everyday issues "that are not talked about", such as criminal acts of the English army in Northern Ireland, juvenile prisons, incest between fathers and daughters, multinational companies, racist "skinheads", military interrogations, teenage drug addiction, Margaret Thatcher's politics, football hooligans, with casts that included David Bowie, Tim Roth, and Gary Oldman. «Penda's Fen» (after the last pagan king of the Anglo-Saxons, which led to the name of Pinfin, the town where the action takes place) is an admirable film in every sense, aural, visual, dramaturgical and technical, in in which the writer David Rudkin combined dreamlike, mythical, and religious lines to tell the story of Stephen Franklin (Banks), the fanatical, manichean, and puritan son of a vicar, who makes a difficult transition to adulthood at the end of high school. In this stage of his life and education, he rebels against the militia, discovers his ambisexuality, studies the music of Sir Edward Elgar, has encounters with the country's pagan past (through the name Pinfin and King Penda himself), with the ghost of Master Elgar, with materializations of opposites, virtue and desire, by means of an angel and a devil. In the end, Stephen is so enlightened in his search for identity (personal and national), but at the same time so exhausted by his religious, erotic and ideological conflicts, that he is forced to take a qualitative leap in which fantasy plays a central role to reach the stage of a young adult. I warn that this film is not at all for the mentally lazy, nor for the "millennials" reluctant to illustration, nor for its declared opponents, the fans of football, «Star Wars», Tarantino, Netflix, Disney, TV series and Marvel heroes. Neither for the militants of the neo-left nor for the old and stale left-wing faction, nor for those obsessed with their bodies and sexual identity. There is something interesting here for almost all of them, but I don't know if they will have the patience or the openness to listen to philosophical dialogues in pristine British English, amidst the apparitions of the angel, the devil, Penda, Elgar and Stephen's erotic fantasies and dreams of weird rites. Shot in 16mm, the film was restored by the British Film Institute.

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