FILMMAKER IN SPOTLIGHT: ANGUS MACQUEEN

THE LAST PEASANTS

Country: UK
Year: 2003
Language: Romanian
Time: 150

Director: Angus Macqueen
Cinematography: Roger Chapman
Editing: Ollie Huddleston
Sound: Vivrel Ghioffl
Production Company: October Films
Source: Iris Maor
Production Manager
October Films
Spring House, 10 Spring Place
London, NW5 3BH
ENGLAND (UK)
+44 20 7284 6875
fax +44 20 7284 6869
iris.maor@octoberfilms.co.uk
www.octoberfilms.co.uk

THE LAST PEASANTS tracks three families through a remote village in Romania's Maramures area. Observational, up-close, and touching, the film looks at the changes imposed on the local community by the collapse of Communism and the new relationship with Western Europe.

Winner: Prix Europa, 2003

THE OBSERVER, LONDON: "Extraordinarily memorable and, as with his previous fine documentary about the Russian gulag, left you aware that you'd had a privileged glimpse of the people of rural Romania at a pivotal point in their history."

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: "Like some epic rural novel, complete with universal themes, enacted on a tiny stage."

The Last Peasants has won a number of awards recently from The Royal Television Society: for best series, cinematography and editing, and the Directors Guild Best Directing on a Documentary.

Director Angus Macqueen in Person!

Sunday 04-Apr-2004 9:00 PM Gallery Theatre