Land and Freedom (1995)

04/07/1995War, Drama, History1h 49m
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David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

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    Ian Hart

    David Carr

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    Rosana Pastor

    Blanca

  3. Cast 1

    Frédéric Pierrot

    Bernard

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    Icíar Bollaín

    Maite

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    Tom Gilroy

    Lawrence

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    Angela Clarke

    Kitty

  7. Eoin McCarthy

    Connor

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    Suzanne Maddock

    Kim

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    Jordi Dauder

    Salas

“David” (Ian Hart) is stuck in Liverpool in the late 1930s with little by way of prospects, so he decides to go and fight for the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. He readily makes friends and is soon joined up with POUM, a collection of Marxists where he encounters “Bianca” (Rosana Pastor) and discovers quickly that this is a brutal conflict. His ‘side’ are united in their intellectual detestation of fascism, but thereafter he soon discovers that there is little else that glues this disparate group of communists together and after he is wounded, he heads to Barcelona where h...