Land and Freedom

Land and Freedom

  • Director: Ken Loach
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Italy, France
  • Language: English, Spanish, Catalan
  • Release date: March 22, 1996
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: Tierra y libertad
  • "Land and Freedom" is a war film directed by Ken Loach . Ian Hart , Rosana Pastor , Tom Gilroy , María Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez, etc. participated in the performance. 
    The film tells the story of the unemployed British youth David joining an international organization of guerrillas in 1939, fighting for democracy and freedom in the Spanish Civil War and fighting against dictatorship and tyranny. Even if he was injured, he did not forget the story of his dream of reform.   

    Details

    • Release date March 22, 1996
    • Filming locations Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
    • Production companies ARD Degeto Film, BIM Distribuzione, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

    Box office

    Budget

    £2,500,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $228,800

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $8,144

    Gross worldwide

    $228,800

    Movie reviews

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    • By Freddy 2022-12-22 13:46:55

      Tribute to Catalonia

      "Land and Freedom" is a video of George Orwell's memoir of the Spanish Civil War, "A Tribute to Catalonia". The Spanish Civil War is one of the most intricate and intriguing wars of the twentieth century. This war is a prelude to the Second World War. Fascism, communism, anarchism and many other possibilities for the future of mankind collide and agitate here; this war is also the aftermath of the confrontation between Stalinism and Trotskyism. , The Western Republic and the Marxist United...

    • By Lavada 2022-11-21 22:44:07

      A bigger era

      How should people of our time understand the behavior of a member of an international column who is also an individual human?

      It is true that there may be some unemployed people who want to take risks and speculate in troubled times, but we do know that there are a large number of people who sing the Internationale and charge on the front line of artillery.

      In their eyes, through this smoke, they can reach—or at least approach—the other...

    • By Cleora 2022-11-08 22:21:05

      Franco - the last fascist

      Is Franco the messenger of justice or the incarnation of the devil? In the end, it's still a question of standing! When Spain established a republic, the king chose to abdicate with dignity and go into exile. At this time, for most people in Spain, it doesn't matter who is in power, but when the knife is drawn to the middle class, to the nobility, and to the church. These people discovered that the extreme left was not trying to form a coalition government, but to...

    • By Madyson 2022-09-29 10:38:11

      China can completely remake

      The protagonist is also a radical leftist, and the enemy is also a fascist group that is in harmony with Germany and intentions. There is also a legal government in the country that has received a lot of Soviet aid and has an ambiguous attitude. Appeasement of "neutral" Britain and the United States.

      It can be used with only slight changes. Replace the guerrillas of the Marxist United Workers' Party (PUOM) with Tubalu, the Republican government with the...

    • By Angie 2022-06-06 20:53:03

      I'm so fucking drunk!

      I always thought that the stories of Anglo-Saxon men who went to a foreign land to help the weak and slept with local women only existed in third world countries such as me, but I did not expect them to be the same with other races in the first world.

      The title of the film is "Land" and "Freedom". However, with the exception of a more in-depth discussion of the land reform issue, the entire film is actually about a transnational romance....

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    • By Elaina 2023-09-19 07:22:19

      When we see the author's friend Kopp, a Belgian who gave up everything to fight against fascism and behaved very heroically, was not killed by the enemy, but was thrown into prison by the government simply because he belonged to the Trotskyist party POUM You will be overwhelmed by the complexity and brutality of politics. At the end of Land and Freedom, the UMLP was declared an illegal organization by the...

    • By Toby 2023-09-17 02:35:11

      Visualization of George Orwell's memoir of the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia. Think of this dude's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. It's not hard to see what the film is trying to...

    • By Krista 2023-08-08 14:25:44

      why are flowers so...

    • By Jodie 2023-07-31 00:58:47

      It sounds ironic that he joined the revolution chanting "Down with Fascism", but ended up in exile on the charge of "Fascist complicity". However, Ken Loach did not ridicule these young people in the slightest. The whole film uses poetic concise language and oil painting-like delicate lens to give their fate a classical tragic color. In the middle of the film, the priest is executed, the peasants demolish the church, and throw the icons and paintings into the fire, which seems to be a metaphor...

    • By Adeline 2023-07-12 05:57:18

      "Those are capitalist countries. If you need their help, you have to ease your slogan, because otherwise they will scare...

    Movie plot

    In 1939, the unemployed British youth David, like many socialist youths from all over the world, joined an international guerrilla group to fight for democracy and freedom in the Spanish Civil War and fight against Franco's dictatorship. David came to Barcelona because of his injury. The tragic cry of blood during the war became his lingering nightmare. He found himself swayed between his loyalty to socialism and a new lover, but his...
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    Movie quotes

    • David: We elect the officers and everything. It's socialism in action - not like the army back home.

    • David: Revolutions are contagious.

    • [last lines]

      Kim, David's granddaughter: The other day I found this. It was amongst my granddad's papers, and I just thought it was, like, fitting for him. It's a poem by William Morris, and I'd just like to read it out: "Join in the battle, wherein no man can fail. For whoso fadeth and dieth, yet his deeds shall still prevail."