Land and Freedom (film)

Land and Freedom
Movie poster from Ken Loach's Land and Freedom
Directed byKen Loach
Written byJim Allen
Produced byRebecca O'Brien
StarringIan Hart
CinematographyBarry Ackroyd
Edited byJonathan Morris
Music byGeorge Fenton
Distributed byArtificial Eye (United Kingdom)
Alta Films (Spain)
Sputnik Film (Germany)
Columbia TriStar Films Italia (Italy)
Diaphana Films (France)
Release date
  • 6 October 1995 (1995-10-06)
Running time
109 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Spain
Germany
Italy
France
LanguagesEnglish
Spanish
Catalan
Budgetabout £2,500,000
Box office$228,800

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 in the Spanish Civil War for the republicans, a supported by Socialists, Communists and Anarchists 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.