Winstanley
The BFI Collection
Director
Kevin Brownlow
Cast
Miles Halliwell
Jerome Willis
Terry Higgins
Phil Oliver
"Deeply rewarding" - Film4.
1649, post-Civil War England. Gerrard Winstanley, ex-soldier and ruined cloth merchant, leads a group of poor men and women, the Diggers, to claim St George's Hill in Surrey as common land and establish a settlement living as equals. But the local villagers see the Diggers as a threat to their livelihood and led by a Presbyterian parson, take action to harass and burn them out.
UK | English | 1975 | 95 min | Black & White | HD