UNITED KINGDOM · 1995

Land and Freedom

Ken Loach
British Kitchen Sink Spanish Civil War Communist ideology Political betrayal Revolutionary struggle Idealism vs reality
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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.

Year1995
CountryUnited Kingdom
DirectorKen Loach
Land and Freedom poster

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