How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley

Rich is their humor! Deep are their passions! Reckless are their lives! Mighty is their story!

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Release Date

10/28/1941

Runtime

118 mins

Genres

Overview

Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$800,000

Revenue

$4,800,000

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A tender, retrospective portrait of working-class life in a Welsh mining community, told through the eyes of a boy caught between tradition and change. The film moves with elegiac grace through moments of hardship, solidarity, and fractured family bonds.

Mood

MelancholicWistfulBittersweetContemplative

Themes

FamilyClassComing of ageMemory

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Black and whiteNaturalistic

Structure

Framed flashback

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