An intimate epic of hope, tragedy and love at the dawning of the Great War, adapted from the Scottish novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and directed by Terence Davies.
Terence Davies (Liverpool, 1945) boasts a filmography including enormously important titles such as Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno, The Long Day Closes (1992), which competed at Cannes, House of Mirth (2000), Of Time and the City (2008) and The Deep Blue Sea (2011), competitor in the official selection of the San Sebastian Festival, which dedicated a retrospective to this director at its 56th edition (2008).