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The Englishman who went up a Hill but came down a Mountain (1995) [Re-UP]

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The Englishman who went up a Hill but came down a Mountain (1995)
DVDrip | XviD-1279 | mp3@192 | 696x288 | 2 Audio Tracks: English_1 French_2 | Subs: French idx/sub | DVD Cover & Sticker | 1h32 | 1.1 Gb
Comedy, Drama | UK 04 Aug 1995 | Director Christopher MONGER

The movie is set in 1917 (with World War I in the background), and revolves around two English cartographers, the pompous Garrad and his junior, Anson. They arrive at the fictional Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw ("Rough Fountain" or "Rough Spring" in Welsh) to measure its "mountain" – only to cause outrage when they conclude that it is only a hill because it is slightly short of the required 1000 feet in height. The villagers, aided and abetted by the wily Morgan the Goat and the Reverend Mr Jones (who after initially opposing the scheme, grasps its symbolism in restoring the community's war-damaged self-esteem), conspire with Morgan to delay the cartographers' departure while they build an earth cairn on top of the hill to make it high enough to be considered a mountain...

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