Film
The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura
United Kingdom- Director
- John Glenister
- Year
- 1983
A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell. The book he has come to write is Nineteen Eighty-four.
Top cast
Ronald Pickup
George Orwell
Fiona Walker
Avril Blair
David Swift
Richard Rees
Kit Thacker
Bill Dunn
Melanie Parr
Susan Watson
Lucinda Gane
Margaret Fletcher
Eileen McCallum
Shopkeeper
Billy Riddoch
Donald Darroch
Robin Davies
Henry Dakins
Sally Kinghorn
Lucy Dakin
Wendy Marsh
Jane Dakin
Graeme Rozga
Richard Blair (Age 2)
Ross Rozga
Richard Blair (Age 13)
Directed by
John Glenister
Written by
Alan Plater