Winstanley (film)

Winstanley is a British film made in 1975 by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo, based on the 1961 David Caute novel Comrade Jacob.

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This deals with some of the life story of the 17th Century social reformer and writer Gerrard Winstanley, who, along with a small band of followers known as the Diggers tried to establish a self-sufficient farming community on common land at St. George's Hill ("Diggers' Hill") near Cobham, Surrey. The community was one of the world's first small-scale experiments in socialism/communism, and its ideas were copied elsewhere in England during the time of the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, but was quickly suppressed and in the end left only a legacy of ideas to inspire later generations of socialist theorists.

Great efforts were made to produce a film of high historical accuracy. Armour used was actual armour from the 1640s, borrowed from the Tower of London. Real-life activist Sid Rawle played a Ranter (English Revolution period anarchist-type group).

The film was reissued on DVD and Blu-ray in 2009 by the British Film Institute (BFI), which funded the original project.

Cast

Gerard Winstanley - Miles Halliwell

Tom Haydon - Terry Higgins

Lord General Fairfax - Jerome Willis

Will Everard - Phil Oliver

Parson Platt - David Bramley

Mrs. Platt - Alison Halliwell

Captain Gladman - Dawson France

Henry Bickerstaffe - Bill Petch

Colonel Rich - Barry Shaw

Ranter - Sid Rawle

John Coulton - George Hawkins

Recorder - Stanley Reed

Sir Francis Drake - Philip Stearns

Mrs. Drake - Flora Skrine