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LAND & FREEDOM
Ken Loach, 1995
Scripted by his regular collaborator, Jim Allen, Loach's movie is a visceral, emotional and intellectual experience, and among the finest films of the decade. It begins in 1994 with the death of Dave Carne, an octogenarian working-class Liverpudlian, living alone in a tower block, its hallways daubed with National Front and anti-NF graffiti. His granddaughter, Kim, a woman in her twenties, opens a case of his mementoes 'press-cuttings, photographs, letters' that take her back through labour history to the Spanish Civil War. Among the souvenirs is a handful of Spanish earth wrapped in a red neckerchief.
Dennis Grunes' book published by Sands Films Cinema Club which you can purchase here if you haven’t already done so.
2026 marks the 90th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War; Sands Films Cinema Club presents three series of films about this tragedy. The first series will look at the war as seen from outside, by non-Spanish filmmakers. The second selection of films will introduce films about the war made in Spain under Franco. The final series will look a the representation of the war by Spanish filmmakers, after Franco.
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
- Year:
- 1995
- Runtime:
- 109 minutes
- Language:
- Catalan, English, Spanish
- Director:
- Ken Loach
- Screenwriter:
- Jim Allen
- Producer:
- Rebecca O'Brien
- Executive Producer:
- Ulrich Felsberg, Gerardo Herrero, Sally Hibbin
- Cast:
- Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Frédéric Pierrot
- Cinematographer:
- Barry Ackroyd
- Editor:
- Jonathan Morris
- Production Design:
- Martin Johnson
- Composer:
- George Fenton
This page is to obtain access to the broadcast of this Sands Films Cinema Club presentation
LAND & FREEDOM
Ken Loach, 1995
Scripted by his regular collaborator, Jim Allen, Loach's movie is a visceral, emotional and intellectual experience, and among the finest films of the decade. It begins in 1994 with the death of Dave Carne, an octogenarian working-class Liverpudlian, living alone in a tower block, its hallways daubed with National Front and anti-NF graffiti. His granddaughter, Kim, a woman in her twenties, opens a case of his mementoes 'press-cuttings, photographs, letters' that take her back through labour history to the Spanish Civil War. Among the souvenirs is a handful of Spanish earth wrapped in a red neckerchief.
Dennis Grunes' book published by Sands Films Cinema Club which you can purchase here if you haven’t already done so.
2026 marks the 90th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War; Sands Films Cinema Club presents three series of films about this tragedy. The first series will look at the war as seen from outside, by non-Spanish filmmakers. The second selection of films will introduce films about the war made in Spain under Franco. The final series will look a the representation of the war by Spanish filmmakers, after Franco.
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
- Year:
- 1995
- Runtime:
- 109 minutes
- Language:
- Catalan, English, Spanish
- Director:
- Ken Loach
- Screenwriter:
- Jim Allen
- Producer:
- Rebecca O'Brien
- Executive Producer:
- Ulrich Felsberg, Gerardo Herrero, Sally Hibbin
- Cast:
- Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Frédéric Pierrot
- Cinematographer:
- Barry Ackroyd
- Editor:
- Jonathan Morris
- Production Design:
- Martin Johnson
- Composer:
- George Fenton