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Together

Lorenza Mazzetti, Denis Horn
England
1956
50 min
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Mazzetti‘s social drama TOGETHER looks upon invalidity and children’s cruelty in a touching and sad story. In a working-class neighbourhood in London, two deaf-and-dumb boys have created their own world in a life that is otherwise characterised by dreariness. They are thrown onto each other’s company, because their environment does not accept them. On their daily journey to work in a factory, they are the butt of pestering school children. For a little while, the life of one of them gets some colour owing to a short love affair with a girl. However, things turn out badly for him. One day, when the badgering children push his hat from his head while he is sitting on a bridge, he falls into the water. His friend looks for him, but fails to hear his cries for hel

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    Eye Film Institute Netherlands
    Eye Film Institute Netherlands