The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura

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.

Director: John Glenister

Cast: Ronald Pickup, Fiona Walker, David Swift, Kit Thacker, Melanie Parr, Lucinda Gane, Eileen McCallum, Billy Riddoch

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.