Sunset Song (1971)★ 8.2/10
- Drama
Directed by: Moira Armstrong
Written by: Bill Craig, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
A young woman in rural Scotland faces hardship after hardship as she struggles to keep her family farm going through personal losses and the devastation of World War I.
- Original title
- Sunset Song
- Storyline
- Chris Guthrie lives with her family on a bleak farm in North East Scotland at the beginning of the 20th century. On her mother's death, she assumes the managing of the farm with her father and her older brother, but the men fall out, leaving Chris and her father to manage it alone. When her father dies, she considers abandoning the farm, but decides to carry on alone. She marries a young farmer, Ewan Tavendale, they have a baby, they are happy for the first time, then the First World War breaks out, Ewan enlists and dies in France, and Chris is left once again to carry on with the farm.
- Rating
- 8.2 / 10 · 134
- Companies
- BBC Scotland, Masterpiece Theatre, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
- Release dates
- GB March 26, 1971
- NL August 21, 1973
- US April 25, 1976