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Winstanley DVD

Unrated :: Image Entertainment :: Released: 2000-02-15

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Winstanley Summary April 1, 1649. St. George's Hill. Surrey, England. A Reformation-era Religious Sect Called The Diggers Sets Out To Form A Commune And Till The Soil On "common Land," Which By Law Permits Grazing--but Not Settlement And Cultivation. Led By Gerard Winstanley, Theirs Is A Nonviolent Action To Reclaim Land For The Poor Who Have Been Dispossessed By Oliver Cromwell's Recent Civil War. But The Local Villagers See The Diggers As A Threat To Their Livelihood And, Led By The Presbyterian Parson, John Platt, They Take Violent Action To Harass And Burn Them Out. Kevin Brownlow And Andrew Mollo Set Out To Make An Absolutely Historical Film, Accurate In Every Detail--including The Use Of Rare Breeds Of Animals. The Result Is An Authentic, Exciting And Dramatic Rendering Of The First "communist" Revolution In History.

Ten years after the completion of the pioneering British independent production It Happened Here, film historian Kevin Brownlow and military historian Andrew Mollo teamed up again for another impossible dream, a drama based on the life of 17th-century social activist Gerrard Winstanley. Frustrated with the lack of promised reforms under Oliver Cromwell, Winstanley led a much smaller revolution when he proposed using common lands as communal farms, an early form of socialism that terrified landowners and lords. Winstanley comes off a little saintly, but as performed by Miles Halliwell, he's an earthy, passionate man and his followers, the Diggers, are like a pioneering religious sect: determined, proud, and a little frightened. Brownlow and Mollo work with a command and assurance only hinted at in their first film. Mollo brilliantly re-creates 17th-century England on a tiny budget, while Brownlow puts it to film with grace and unsettling beauty: his images are like paintings in black and white, and his deft use of sound is inventive and evocative. The accompanying documentary It Happened Here Again celebrates the filmmaker's achievements with background on production details and the real-life history of Winstanley and the Digger movement. Brownlow went on to make some of the most acclaimed documentaries about cinema history ever produced, including "Unknown Chaplin" and Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow. --Sean Axmaker

Winstanley DVD Techincal Details Cast: Miles Halliwell, Terry Higgins, Phil Oliver, David Bramley
Director: Kevin Brownlow
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Rated: Unrated
Running Time: 95 mins
UPC: 014381593525
Binding: DVD
Studio: Image Entertainment
Release Date: 2000-02-15
Region Code: 0
Specs: Black & White, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown - Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono),