Dulcima (1971)

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This acclaimed drama feature casts Cathy Come Home star Carol White as a young woman whose determined efforts to escape a life of rural poverty lead to complications and worse; Oscar winner John Mills is the lonely, ageing farmer with whom she finds work, accommodation and the promise of easy money. An earthy, sympathetic adaptation of H.E. Bates' novel, Dulcima earned director Frank Nesbitt a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1971. This rare, much sought-after film is now presented in a brand-new transfer from the original elements. Dulcima, a pretty girl treated as a drudge by her family, lifts herself from her environment by becoming housekeeper to Parker, a curmudgeonly widower living in drunken disarray on a neighbouring farm. When she sees the amount of money he has stashed around the place, Dulcima is happy enough to indulge his growing desire for her, and a strange, yet mutually beneficial, relationship develops. But a handsome young gamekeeper, newly arrived on a nearby estate, also catches Dulcima's eye...