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Winstanley (1976)

 -  Drama  -  3 August 1979 (USA)
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Miles Halliwell ...
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Terry Higgins ...
Phil Oliver ...
David Bramley ...
Alison Halliwell ...
Dawson France ...
Bill Petch ...
Barry Shaw ...
Sid Rawle ...
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George Hawkins ...
John Coulton
Stanley Reed ...
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Philip Stearns ...
Francis Drake
Flora Skrine ...
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George Barratt
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Referenced in It Happened Here Again (1976) See more »

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"Alexander Nevsky"
Music by Sergei Prokofiev
Played by The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
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Well-intentioned but flawed
4 March 2012 | by (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews

Gerrard Winstanley (1609 – 1676) was an English Protestant religious reformer and political activist during the period after the English Civil Wat under the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He was one of the leaders of a movement which called itself the True Levellers, was known by others as the Diggers, and could be characterised as a form of Christian Communism.

This little-known and well-intentioned film about the radical movement

  • directed and co-written by Kevin Brownlow - will not be to all
tastes. Visually, it reminds one of the best of early cinema such as that of Eisenstein: 4:3 ratio, black and white, distant shots of figures, close up shots of faces, a variety of framed shots. And it is a vivid and authentic reaction of the period. But much of the acting is very amateurish and there is a lack of both characterisation and narrative.


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