UK / Spain / Germany / Italy / France,
1995, 109 min
Directed by:
Ken LoachScreenplay:
Jim AllenCinematography:
Barry AckroydComposer:
George FentonCast:
Ian Hart, Icíar Bollaín, Eoin McCarthy, Jordi Dauder, Frédéric Pierrot, Francesc Orella, Pascal Demolon, Daniel Muñoz, Rosana Pastor, Pep Molina, Pep Cortés (more)Plots(1)
"Land and Freedom" is a close-up look by script writer Jim Allen and director Ken Loach on the drama of the Spanish Civil War, and how it played out among the nameless little guys, the fighters in the trenches. The idealists, the idealogues, the romantics, the bored, who traveled from other countries to fight for Spain against Franco's fascist regime, the peasants of Aragon who speak words foreign to them, such as "collectivisation of the land", their loves, their deaths, their disillusionments-it's all there. (official distributor synopsis)
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