A Month in the Country (film)

A Month in the Country is a 1987 British film directed by Pat OConnor. The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by J. L. Carr, and stars Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson and Patrick Malahide. The screenplay was by Simon Gray.

Set in 1920, the film follows the experiences of Tom Birkin Colin Firth, who has been employed under a bequest to carry out restoration work on a Medieval mural discovered in a church in the small rural community of Oxgodby, Yorkshire. The escape to the idyllic countryside is cathartic for Birkin, haunted by his experiences in World War I. Birkin soon fits into the slowpaced life of the remote village, and over the course of the summer uncovering the painting begins to lose his traumainduced stammer and tics.In particular, he forms a close friendship with archaeologist James Moon Kenneth Branagh, another veteran, who like Birkin has been emotionally scarred by the war. Moon is employed in the village under the same bequest, working to uncover a mysterious lost grave, but is more interested in discovering the remains of an earlier Saxon church building in the field next to the churchyard. ........

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