Winstanley

United Kingdom

1975

95 Min

Black and White

English

Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
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DIR Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo

PROD Andrew Mollo, Kevin Brownlow

SCR Andrew Mollo, Kevin Brownlow

DP Ernest Vincze

CAST Miles Halliwell, Jerome Willis, Terry Higgins, Alison Halliwell, Phil Oliver

ED Sarah Ellis, Kevin Brownlow

Synopsis

1649. With poverty and unrest sweeping England following the Civil Wars and the failure of the Levellers to secure voting rights for non-landowners, a group of impoverished people, the Diggers, form a settlement on St George’s Hill in Surrey under the leadership of Gerrard Winstanley. —BFI

Director

Kevin Brownlow

Kevin Brownlow (born on 2 June 1938, Crowborough, Sussex) is a filmmaker, film historian, television documentary-maker, author, and Academy Award recipient. Brownlow is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era. Brownlow became interested in silent film at the age of eleven. This interest grew into a career spent documenting and restoring film. He has rescued many silent films and their history. His initiative in interviewing many largely forgotten, elderly film pioneers in the 1960s and 1970s preserved a legacy of cinema. Brownlow received an Academy Honorary Award at the 2nd Annual Governors Awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 13, 2010. —Wikipedia

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Espen Nomedal

5Mar12

After years of Civil Wars, Gerrard Winstanley, a 17th century St. Francis forms his own Christian community to settle down in harmony with God. This is much to the discomfort of the authorities! In silent-cinematic imagery, Brownlow and Mollo questions democracy, not religion as one might expect. Winstanley's wreath of thorns is a reminder of the power of the individualistic spirit, no matter politics or creed.