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Article: Gritty realism: Film portrays miner's life.
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- Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2006
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By Stuart Robinson
CULTURE vultures at top international film festivals could be getting a gritty taste of life at the coal face thanks to a new short film made by a Leeds director.
Up-and-coming director Marcus Dyachenko, 27, has been directing and producing the film One Last Time, shooting on location at Wakefield's National Coal Mining Museum, Stanley Cricket Club near Wakefield, and the village of Penistone, near Barnsley.
Powerful
Set shortly after the 1980s coal mining strike, the 15-minute film follows the story of Andy Burns, a coal miner who faces his final day at work after being kept on with a minority of workers during ...