Land and Freedom (1995)

Directed by

Ken Loach

Genre

drama film, period drama film, war film, flashback film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

e 12

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 300 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An unemployed British communist travels to Spain to fight for the republican side in the civil war. The film follows his experiences on the front lines and inside the political tensions among the leftist factions.

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What happens

Land and Freedom (or Tierra y Libertad) is a 1995 film directed by Ken Loach and written by Jim Allen. The film narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, who decides to fight in the Spanish Civil War for the republicans against a nationalist coup d'état. The film won the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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