Winstanley (DVD)

A meticulously accurate historical film set in 1649 in the poverty and unrest left in the wake of the English Civil War. A group of impoverished men and women, led by Gerrard Winstanley (a former soldier and cloth merchant ruined by the war), set up a commune on St George's Hill in Surrey, and the story follows their attempts to live in perfect peace and harmony. Directors Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo attempted to make a completely authentic film - the costumes were copied from originals in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the armour was borrowed from the Tower of London Armoury, and the script was altered when Winstanley's pamphlets were discovered in the British Museum. The film is accompanied by an award-winning documentary, 'It Happened Here Again', by Eric Mival, who had previously worked with Brownlow and Mollo on 'It Happened Here'.

General

Studio:	BFI Pub
Release date:	March 2012
Movie released:	1975
Actors:	Miles Halliwell • Jerome Willis • Terry Higgins • Phil Oliver • David Bramley • Alison Halliwell • Dawson France • Bill Petch • Barry Shaw • Sid Rawle • George Hawkins • Stanley Reed • Philip Stearns • Flora Skrine
Contributors:	Kevin Brownlow • Andrew Mollo
Directors:	Kevin Brownlow • Andrew Mollo • Eric Mival
Format:
Disks:	2
Region encoding:	Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
Languages:	English
Age restriction:	PG
Categories:	DVD > Drama DVD > Feature Film
LSN:	XMG-E6F-YLE-5
Barcode:	5035673011416

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