A farm, a war, and a woman who refuses to break. Scottish soil has never bled so beautifully.
Season 1 • Episode 6
Latest'Everything I had ever loved and desired went out to the madness beyond the hills on that ill road that flung its evil white ribbon down into the dusk.'
A young woman in rural Scotland faces hardship after hardship as she struggles to keep her family farm going through personal losses and the devastation of World War I.
Acting
Vivien Heilbron's Chris contains multitudes with minimal dialogue.
Cinematography
Scottish landscapes shot like wounded lovers.
Writing
Bill Craig adapts Gibbon's prose without sanitizing its brutality.
Creator
Bill Craig
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Heilbron was 22 playing Chris from teenager to mature woman; BBC initially wanted an older star.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 novel was controversial for its Scots dialect and socialist feminism; this 1971 adaptation arrived as Scottish nationalism resurged.
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