Where Adam Stood (1976)

Directed by

Brian Gibson

Genre

drama, tv movie

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 17m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy grows up in a strict Victorian household with a devout father. Their conflicting beliefs and emotional distance shape his path to adulthood.

emotionalintrospectivepersonalrestrainedmelancholictenderthoughtful

What happens

Where Adam Stood is a television play by Dennis Potter, first broadcast on BBC 2 in 1976. It is a free adaptation, wholly shot on film, of Edmund Gosse's autobiographical book Father and Son (1907). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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