Interviewed in The Guardian, prior to the Cannes Film Festival special screening of the 1995 award winning “Land and Freedom”, film-maker and long-time Corbyn ally says ‘poor behaviour’ squandered a chance to unite the left in the fight against the far right. (Read the full article.)
Land and Freedom (or Tierra y Libertad) was directed by Ken Loach and written by Jim Allen. It tells the story of David Carr, an unemployed member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, who decides to fight in the Spanish Civil War for the republicans against a nationalist coup d’état.
The film won the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes.
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