Under the milk forest (film)

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Movie
German title Under the milk forest
Original title Under Milk Wood
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1972
length 87 minutes
Rod
Director Andrew Sinclair
script Andrew Sinclair, based on a radio play by Dylan Thomas
production Jules Buck , Hugh French , Peter James , John Comfort for Timon Productions
music Brian Gascoigne
camera Robert Huke
cut Willy Kemplen , Greg Miller
occupation

Unter dem Milchwald is a British feature film directed by Andrew Sinclair from 1972. The film is an adaptation of the radio play Unter dem Milchwald (radio play) by Dylan Thomas , which premiered in 1953, and was produced for the short-lived film company Timon Productions .

action

The setting is a Welsh fishing village called Llareggub. The focus of the film, whose plot is limited to a single day, is a multitude of characters whose hopes and dreams unfold to the audience in a quick succession of cheerful and lyrical dialogues. For example, there is Captain Cat, a blind ex-sea captain who dreams of his dead seamates. The seamstress Myfanwy Price dreams of marrying the cloth merchant Mog Edwards, who reciprocates her feelings but is only allowed to approach her in letters. The landlady Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard is a multiple widow who dreams of her deceased husbands and refuses to take in guests because the living could make the house dirty.

Production and reception

The film is based on Dylan Thomas' most famous work, which premiered in 1953 in the form of a stage reading at the New York Poetry Center . It was first broadcast as a radio play, produced by the BBC , in January 1954, with Richard Burton in the role of first narrator. Dylan Thomas was a writer Burton particularly admired.

For the versatile British artist and historian Andrew Sinclair (born 1935), who is also the author of a Dylan Thomas biography, Unter dem Milchwald was only the second directorial work. His previous film, the comedy The Braking of Bumbo (1970), did not make it to a theatrical release after its premiere.

The film, which is produced in color and 35mm, was shot in Lower Town, Pembrokeshire . Elizabeth Taylor , for whom this was the ninth joint film with Richard Burton, only appeared in a small role.

Under the Milk Forest premiered in London on January 27, 1972. Aesthetically, as Vincent Canby of the New York Times noted, the film suffered from the failure of the attempt to adapt the radio play template for the visual medium of film.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vincent Canby : Under Milk Wood (1971) , New York Times, January 22, 1973