Taglines: Fighting for your belief in another’s war.
Land and Freedom movie storyline. Spring 1936, a young unemployed communist, David, leaves his hometown Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain. He joins an international group of Militia-men and women, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista). After being wounded he goes to Barcelona, where he decides to join another group of fighters. They remain in Barcelona and end up fighting other anti-fascist groups. David is disappointed and decides to go back to his old band.
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 for the republican side in the Spanish Civil War, an anti-fascist coalition of Socialists, Communists and Anarchists. The film won the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.
Land and Freedom (1995)
Directed by: Ken Loach
Starring: Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Icíar Bollaín, Tom Gilroy, Marc Martínez, Frédéric Pierrot, Raffaele Cantatore, Pascal Demolon, Sergi Calleja, Josep Magem
Screenplay by: Jim Allen
Production Design by: Martin Johnson
Cinematography by: Barry Ackroyd
Film Editing by: Jonathan Morris
Costume Design by: Ana Alvargonzález
Music by: George Fenton
Distributed by: Gramercy Pictures
Release Date: October 6, 1995
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