"He's got something to show you..."
A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.
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Karen Kilgariff
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Derrick Beckles
Davy Rothbart
Joe Pickett
Nick Prueher
Lehr Beidelschies
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Nic Maier
Peter Shaw
Thomas Lynch
Together, the three Bertrand brothers work their farm in a small Savoyard village. In 1972, they took the enormous risk to invest in the construction of an ultra modern stable for 82 milk cows. With modern organisation, they hoped to lead a better life. Almost 30 years later, the farm is successful. Their work is meticulous and the milk is graded top quality. The human cost is much more sombre. Indeed these thirty years can be summarised in one word : work. The brothers are bachelors and – each one now over sixty years old – a bitterness when they recall their past. The younger brother says it himself: "It's an economic success, but it's a human failure...".
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Farmer Tom and the childran are off to a farm where cheese is made. The clever cows know when it's milking time and we see them in the dairy. There are lots of machines on the farm too - the milk tanker, the busy forklifts, the feed wagon is feeding the young cows in the barn and the loader is filling the digesters to make electricity on the farm. Lots of exciting jobs to make the yummy cheese.
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