Sixty-Six

26 Sept 2007

Director: Paul Welland

UK

2006

93 min

It is the summer of 1966 and England hosts the football World Cup. Twelve year old Bernie has something far more significant on his mind the day he becomes a man, his Bar Mitzvah. This most important day in his life is over-shadowed as his family are increasingly distracted by their business problems. Worse still, the World Cup Final is scheduled for the same day and England’s success threatens to obliterate Bernie’s longed-for day. Sixty-Six is director Paul Welland’s lighthearted and droll reflection on his childhood