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Karl Francis

Above Us the Earth

  • Drama
  • Documentary
RELEASE

1977-06-11

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

85 min

Description

Independent Welsh filmmaker Karl Francis uses amateur and professional actors to explore the community impact of the 1975 closure of the Ogilvie Colliery in the Rhymney Valley, a few miles from his family home. Critical of the National Coal Board and the trade unions, the film focuses on the fractious interactions between politicians and union leaders, teasing out the forces that are attempting to divide the community.