After 42 years of making groundbreaking films inspired by the Jesuit motto, Granada's World In Action team has released 49 Up, its seventh and last film in a long-running series. An interviewer who said, "Give me the child until he is seven and I'll give you the man" conducted a series of interviews with a diverse group of seven-year-old children from all around England. "Children" have been interviewed by filmmaker Michael Apted on every seven-year interval since they were 14, 21, 28 and 35-years-old. For the first time in the book's long history, more of the original group participates than ever before, revealing more life-changing decisions and making more stunning declarations about love, marriage, class and prejudice.
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After 42 years of making groundbreaking films inspired by the Jesuit motto, Granada's World In Action team has released 49 Up, its seventh and last film in a long-running series. An interviewer who said, "Give me the child until he is seven and I'll give you the man" conducted a series of interviews with a diverse group of seven-year-old children from all around England. "Children" have been interviewed by filmmaker Michael Apted on every seven-year interval since they were 14, 21, 28 and 35-years-old. For the first time in the book's long history, more of the original group participates than ever before, revealing more life-changing decisions and making more stunning declarations about love, marriage, class and prejudice.
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