- Winstanley (film)
Infobox Film
name = Winstanley
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director =Kevin Brownlow Andrew Mollo
producer = Andrew Mollo
Kevin Brownlow
writer =David Caute (novel)
Kevin Brownlow
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starring =Miles Halliwell
music =Sergei Prokofiev
cinematography =Ernest Vincze
editing =Sarah Ellis
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released = 1975
runtime = 95 min.
country =U.K.
language = English
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imdb_id = 0073911"Winstanley" is the title of a film made in 1975 in the UK by
Kevin Brownlow andAndrew Mollo , based on the 1962David Caute novel "Comrade Jacob " (ASIN: B0007E2A6Q). This deals with some of the life story of the 17th Century social reformer and writerGerrard Winstanley , who, along with a small band of followers known as theDiggers tried to establish a self-sufficient farming community on common land at St. George's Hill nearCobham, Surrey . This was one of the world's first socialistic living experiments which was copied elsewhere in England during the time of the Protectorate ofOliver Cromwell , but was quickly suppressed and in the end left only a legacy of ideas to inspire later generations of socialist theorists.External links
*imdb title|id=0073911|title=Winstanley
* [http://www.sover.net/~ozus/winstanley.htm Winstanley] website
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