Ethel & Ernest

And the winner is ...! It's that much awaited moment, audience awards, partner and jury prizes, the best short, the best feature, the best up-coming... and then, the Anima 2017 Grand Prix, eligible for the Oscars.

Ethel, a well-ordered house-maid, meets Ernest, a progressive thinking milkman: they fall in love and get married in London in 1928. Their son is born in 1934, and their lives follow the upheavals of the history of the 20th century.

Ethel and Ernest, were also the parents of Raymond Briggs, author of the popular graphic novel of the same name, and well known for his famous Snowman and When the Wind Blows adapted for the cinema by the London studio TVC. Roger Mainwood directed, under the watchful eye of Raymond Briggs himself, in order to bring to the screen as faithfully as possible this homage by the author to his parents, an ordinary couple who just happened to live in a great era.

This bitter-sweet social picture depicts the history of a century in Great Britain, the tensions between classes, the Depression, WW2, TV, the space race and the changing moral values of the post war years.

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