On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around, they indulge in spontaneous games and horseplay - sometimes echoing the distant war, at other times revealing their own insecurities and petty vindictiveness.
- 6.5
- 1979
- Released
- 1h 12m
Colin Welland
Willie
Michael Elphick
Peter
Robin Ellis
John
John Bird
Raymond
Helen Mirren
Angela
Janine Duvitski
Audrey
Colin Jeavons
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Anyone else grow up reading Enid Blyton books? Those "Secret Seven" or "Famous Five" stories where young folks had some jolly japes, sometime tempered with a baddie and some ingenious traps and wheezes? I thought for a while that this is what we were going to get here as a collection of youths are playing merrily in a forest in the middle of WWII. There's no sign of the atrocities of the war per s