Hedd Wyn (film)

Hedd Wyn is a 1992 Welsh antiwar biopic, written by Alan Llwyd and directed by Paul Turner.

As the camera pans over the intricate carving on the infamous Black Chair, the voice of the Archdruid Dyfed is heard vainly summoning the poet who signs his work with the nom de plume Fleurdelis to stand and be chaired. The film then flashes back to 1913.As a farmers son in the village of Trawsfynydd, Ellis Humphrey Evans composes poetry for local eisteddfodau under the bardic name Hedd Wyn Blessed Peace. A friend and student minister, William Morris Arwel Gruffydd, advises Ellis that his verse possesses a passion which better educated poets lack. Therefore, with more work and less womanizing, Ellis could win the National Eisteddfod. Ellis smiles and quips, Where do you think all that passion comes from? Meanwhile, international tensions rise and the British Army installs an artillery range on a local hillside, much to Ellis annoyance. ........

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