Movie detail: land-and-freedom

Sinopsis

Spring 1936, a young unemployed communist, David, leaves his hometown Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain.

He joins an international group of Militia-men and women, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista).
After being wounded he goes to Barcelona, where he decides to join another group of fighters.
They remain in Barcelona and end up fighting other anti-fascist groups. David is disappointed and decides to go back to his old band.

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Ken Loach
1936 Loach studied law at St Peter's Hall, Oxford. After a brief spell in the theatre, he was recruited by the BBC in 1963 as a television director. This lauched a long career...

Ian Hart
1964 Ian Hart (8 October 1964) is an English stage, television and film actor. He portrayed an International Brigade volunteer in the Spanish Civil War in Land and Freedom (1995),...

Rosana Pastor
1960 Rosana Pastor (born 7 August 1960 in Alboraya) is a Spanish politician and actress . She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 2002 Goya Awards for her role in...

Tom Gilroy
Tom Gilroy is an actor and director, known for Spring Forward (1999), The Cold Lands (2013) and Touch Base (1994).

Technical information

PRODUCTION YEAR: 1994
RUNTIME: 109m.
PRINTED FILM FORMAT: 35mm
GENRE: Fiction. Spanish Civil War. Comedy
COUNTRY: Great Britain
LANGUAGE: English

Technical team

WRITTERS: Jim Allen
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Barry Ackroyd
STILL PHOTOGRAPHER: Paul Chedlow
CAMERA: Jeremy Gee, Nigel Willoughby
SOUNDTRACK: George Fenton

Executive team

PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Parallax Pictures, Messidor Films, Road Movies Filmproduktion
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/S: Gerardo Herrero, Sally Hibbin

Casting

Ian Hart, Icíar Bollaín, Rosana Pastor, Tom Gilroy, Marc Martínez, Frédéric Pierrot, Sergi Calleja, Raffaele Cantatore, Pascal Demolon, Paul Laverty, Josep Magen, Jürgen Müller

Awards/Selections

FIPRESCI International Critics Prize
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival
European Film Award Best Picture

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Land and Freedom