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Labour's Old Romantic: A Film Portrait of Michael Foot

1997 · 50 min

A gentle, talky portrait that mixes nostalgia and political hindsight, feeling like a warm but wistful conversation with history.

Directed by: Alison Cahn
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Michael Cockerell, Michael Foot, Jill Craigie

Tagline: A Film Portrait of Michael Foot
Overview: A profile of Michael Foot, the former leader of the Labour Party, which included footage of him on the night of Tony Blair’s historic 1997 victory, and interviews with his wife, the filmmaker Jill Cragie, and some of his old colleagues and friends, including Barbara Castle, Spike Milligan and Salman Rushdie.

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Directed by: Alison Cahn
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Michael Cockerell, Michael Foot, Jill Craigie

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Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: politics
memory
identity
class
media
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Alison Cahn
Written by: Michael Cockerell
Starring: Michael Cockerell, Michael Foot, Jill Craigie, Spike Milligan, Barbara Castle, Paul Foot, Sarah Foot, Denis Healey
Runtime: 50 min
Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

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