1649. With poverty and unrest sweeping England, a group of impoverished men and women, the Diggers, form a settlement on St George’s Hill, Surrey. Inspired by the visionary leadership of Gerrard Winstanley, they attempt to assert their right to cultivate and share the wealth of the common land. Brownlow and Mollo (the creators of It Happened Here) have produced an astonishingly authentic historical film and a powerful, moving story of one extraordinary man’s vision. ‘The most mysteriously beautiful English film since the best of Michael Powell’ Film Comment. First... time on DVD ever. Release is packed with extra content including over 90 minutes of making of documentaries and a 32 page booklet. [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and region B Blu-ray. It will require a region B Blu-ray player to play the Blu-ray and DVD or a Region 2 DVD player for the DVD. WINSTANLEY (DVD Blu-ray) A film by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo 1649. With poverty and unrest sweeping England, a group of impoverished men and women form a settlement to cultivate and share the wealth of the common land but are met with crushing hostility from local landowners and government troops. With Winstanley, filmmakers Brownlow and Mollo (the creators of It Happened Here) have produced a powerful, moving story of one extraordinary man's vision. Special Features New restoration by the BFI National Archive New filmed interview with Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo (40 minutes) It Happened Here Again (Eric Mival, 1976, 13 minutes) the making of Winstanley 9 Dalmuir West (Kevin Brownlow, 1962, 13 minutes), a record of the last weekend of Glasgow trams Fully illustrated 32-page booklet with contributions by Marina Lewycka (author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Eric Mival, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Tom Milne, and David Robinson; plus biographies and credits UK | 1975 | black and white | English, with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles | 92 minutes | Original aspect ratio 1.33:1 Disc 1: BD50 | 1080p | 24fps | PCM mono audio (48k/16-bit) Disc 2: DVD9 | PAL | Dolby Digital 2.0 (320kbps) Region 2 DVD Region B Blu-ray
A meticulously accurate historical film set in 1649 in the poverty and unrest left in the wake of the English Civil War. A group of impoverished men and women, led by Gerrard Winstanley (a former soldier and cloth merchant ruined by the war), set up a commune on St George's Hill in Surrey, and the story follows their attempts to live in perfect peace and harmony. Directors Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo attempted to make a completely authentic film - the costumes were copied from originals in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the armour was borrowed from the Tower of London Armoury, and the script was altered when Winstanley's pamphlets were discovered in the British Museum. The film is accompanied by an award-winning documentary, 'It Happened Here Again', by Eric Mival, who had previously worked with Brownlow and Mollo on 'It Happened Here'.
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