Cider with Rosie 1998

Cider with Rosie 1998

Cider with Rosie 1998
1h 40min | Biography, Drama, Romance | 27 December 1998 (UK)

Storyline:

A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.

User review:

In 1975, the BBC made a film version of Cider with Rosie, also approved by Laurie Lee, and featuring Rosemary Leach as the mother. The earlier production is a triumph compared to this one, with a wonderful semi-impressionistic view of this dramatisation of English village life after the first world war.

In the 1975 version, look for example at the final shot where we see the young Laurie passing the real life elderly Laurie. What a glorious touch! Fortunately I have the first version on tape (and now preserved on a DVD!).

This later version, sadly, is strictly run of the mill made-for-TV drama compared to the 1975 one, which was produced by Eileen Diss and scripted by Hugh Whitemore, 2 of the BBC’s greatest!.

Director: Charles Beeson
Writers: Laurie Lee(memoirs)John Mortimer
Stars: Juliet Stevenson, Dashiell Reece, Joe Roberts
Countries of origin: United Kingdom, United States
Language: English
Also known as: Masterpiece Theatre: Cider with Rosie