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My Father and Me

Nick Broomfield takes a distinctly personal look at his relationships with his humanist-pacifist father, Maurice Broomfield, a factory worker turned photographer of vivid images of postwar England.

For decades among the foremost names in documentary, Nick Broomfield has often implicated himself in the film-making process with honesty and candour. Yet never has he made a movie more distinctly personal than this complex and moving film about his relationship with his humanist-pacifist father, Maurice Broomfield, a factory worker turned photographer of vivid, often lustrous images of industrial post-WWII England.

These images inspired Nick’s own film-making career but also spoke to a difference in outlook between Maurice and Nick, whose less romantic, more left-wing political identity stemmed from his Jewish mother’s side. My Father and Me is both memoir and tribute, and in its intimate story of one family, it takes an expansive, philosophical look at the 20th century itself.

1 hour, 34 minutes

Last on

Wed 10 Nov 2021 22:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Four

Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:02

    Brian Eno

    Another Green World

  • 00:06

    The Mantovani Orchestra

    Charmaine

  • 01:03

    The Phoenix Foundation

    Sideways Glance

  • 01:09

    James Last and His Orchestra, James Last

    Empty Glasses

Credits

Director Nick Broomfield
Producer Kyle Gibbon
Producer Marc Hoeferlin
Producer Shani Hinton
Editor Joe Siegal
Executive Producer Patrick Holland
Executive Producer Mark Bell
Executive Producer Charles Finch
Production Company Lafayette Film Ltd

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