The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Runtime: 99 mins

Rated: PG

Release Date: 1995

Countries: United Kingdom

Languages: English, Welsh

DIRECTED BY:

Christopher Monger

WRITTEN BY:

Ifor Davivd Monger, Christopher Monger

CAST INCLUDES:

Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney

ANGELIKA’S NOTE

Directed by Welsh filmmaker Christopher Monger (GIRL FROM RIO, TEMPLE GRANDIN, REPEATER), THE ENGLISHMAN WHO WENT UP A HILL BUT CAME DOWN A MOUNTAIN tells the story of a Welsh village and their journey to transform a mountain of a molehill – quite literally – as they work to prove an English cartographer, played by Hugh Grant (LOVE ACTUALLY, ABOUT A BOY, FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL), wrong.

SYNOPSIS

Two English cartographers visit the small South Wales village of Ffynnon Garw, to measure what is claimed to be the “first mountain inside of Wales”. It’s 1917, and the war in Europe continues. The villagers are very proud of their “mountain”, and are understandably disappointed and furious to find that it is in fact a “hill”. Not to be outwitted by a rule (and the Englishmen who enforce it), the villagers set out to make their hill into a mountain, but to do so they must keep the English from leaving, before the job is done.