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The Day (1960 film)

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The Day
Directed byPeter Finch
Written byPeter Finch
Yolande Turner
StarringAntonion Costa
CinematographyJohn Von Kotze
Release date
  • 1960 (1960)
Running time
26 mins
LanguageEnglish
Budget£5,000[1]

The Day is a 1960 short film co-written and directed by Peter Finch. It is a fictionalized documentary on a young boy's life on the Spanish island of Ibiza. Music by Sir Eugene Goossens, for string quartet, percussion and flute.

Plot

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A little Spanish boy (Antonion Costa) goes from his village with his donkey and cart to the city to bring the news of the birth of a child.

Production

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Although Finch was best known as an actor, he had worked as a writer and director before, notably on stage. He also helped make the documentary Primitive Peoples (1949).

Reception

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The film won awards at the 1961 Venice Festival of Children's Films, and Cork Festival in Ireland.[2] Finch had hopes to direct a feature film, an adaptation of Derek Monsey's World War II novel The Hero but could not get the finance.[3]

References

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  1. ^ STEPHEN WATTS (23 April 1961). "BRITAIN'S SCREEN SCENE: Encouraging Survey, Rank's Dossier -- Footnotes on Three Luminaries". New York Times. p. 129.
  2. ^ Britain, I. M., 'Finch, Frederick George Peter Ingle (1916–1977)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University accessed 13 February 2012
  3. ^ Trader Faulkner, Peter Finch: A Biography, Angus & Robertson London 1979 p 209