penda's fen

Director: alan clarke

Actor: spencer banks,john atkinson,georgine anderson,ron smerczak

Data Published: Thu Mar 21 1974

Genres: Comedy,Drama

Key Words: gnosticism,gnosis,gnostic,religion,politics

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325965/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penda%27s_Fen

Description: Penda's Fen is an episode of Play for Today starring Spencer Banks, John Atkinson, and Georgine Anderson. Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to...

Plot: Set in the village of Pinvin, near Pershore in Worcestershire, England, against the backdrop of the Malvern Hills, it is an evocation of conflicting forces within England past and present. These include authority, tradition, hypocrisy, landscape, art, sexuality, and most of all, its mystical, ancient pagan past. All of this comes together in the growing pains of the adolescent Stephen, a vicar's son, whose encounters include angels, Edward Elgar and King Penda himself. The final scene of the play, where the protagonist has an apparitional experience of King Penda and the "mother and father of England", is set on the Malvern Hills.[2][3]