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A Connemara Family

Melissa Llewelyn Davies
1982 United Kingdom 54 minutes English

The life of a farming family in the West of Ireland : the mother, Kate, is eighty years old and has never left Connemara, but her nine children have emigrated to England or to USA.Two of her sons have recently returned home to work with her. Life is hard, but Connemara seems to be cut off from time and entirely preserved.

Melissa Llewelyn Davies

Née en 1945 à Londres, ethnologue et cinéaste.
Etudes d’anthropologie à Londres et à Harvard
Auteur de deux ouvrages : Maasaïi Women, 1974 et Maasai Manhood, 1975
A réalisé :
Some Women of Marrakech, 1977 – Saints and spirits – The Women ‘s Olamal, 1984 – Diary of a Maasai Village, 1984 – The Team on B-6, 1987 – Scenes from the Farm, 1988 –

Production :
BBC Bristol
Distribution :
BBC Enterprises
Editing :
Paul Carter
Sound :
Bob Alcock
Photography :
Dick Pope