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1995 · United Kingdom, Spain, Germany

Land and Freedom

Tonight at a glance

Runtime
109 min
Age rating
15
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom, Spain, Germany
Violence
Moderate

The story

Summer 1936: young unemployed communist David Carr leaves Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain. He joins an international group of Militia-men and women, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista). After being wounded, he goes to Barcelona, where he joins another group of fighters.

  • worker
  • spain
  • solidarity
  • revolution
  • fascism
  • spanish civil war (1936-39)
  • anarchist
  • franco regime (francoism)
  • betrayal
  • working class

The look

A few frames, chosen rather than collected.

The bill

Directed
Ken Loach
Written
Jim Allen

Production

Rating
7.3 / 10 · 303 ratings
Studio
Parallax Pictures, Messidor Films, Road Movies, British Screen