Land and Freedom | |
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![]() Movie poster from Ken Loach's Land and Freedom | |
Directed by | Ken Loach |
Written by | Jim Allen |
Produced by | Rebecca O'Brien |
Starring | Ian Hart |
Cinematography | Barry Ackroyd |
Edited by | Jonathan Morris |
Music by | George Fenton |
Distributed by | Artificial Eye (United Kingdom)[1] Alta Films (Spain)[1] Sputnik Film (Germany)[2] Columbia TriStar Films Italia (Italy)[1] Diaphana Films (France)[1] |
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Running time | 109 minutes |
Countries | United Kingdom Spain Germany Italy France |
Languages | English Spanish Catalan |
Budget | about £2,500,000[3] |
Box office | $228,800 |
Land and Freedom (or Tierra y Libertad)[4] 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, a coalition of Socialists, Communists and Anarchists 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.[5] The film was also nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes.