The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura

Overview

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.

Directed by John Glenister

Top cast

Ronald Pickup

George Orwell

F

Fiona Walker

Avril Blair

D

David Swift

Richard Rees

K

Kit Thacker

Bill Dunn

M

Melanie Parr

Susan Watson

L

Lucinda Gane

Margaret Fletcher

Eileen McCallum

Shopkeeper

Billy Riddoch

Donald Darroch

Robin Davies

Henry Dakins

S

Sally Kinghorn

Lucy Dakin

W

Wendy Marsh

Jane Dakin

G

Graeme Rozga

Richard Blair (Age 2)

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Ross Rozga

Richard Blair (Age 13)

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