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Dominican Rep. March to Aldermaston (S)
- Original title
- March to Aldermaston
- Year
- 1959
- Running time
- 33 min.
- Country
United Kingdom- Director
- Cast
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- Cinematography
Allan Forbes (B&W)- Genre
- Documentary | Short Film. Cold War. Nuclear Holocaust. Free Cinema
- Synopsis
- A new world was in birth when, on Easter weekend of 1958, thousands of Britons staged the first "March against Nuclear Death." Alarmed by a spiraling arms race - Britain had just joined the nuclear club the year before - and spurning the lockstep logic of the Cold War, a massive crowd gathered in London's Trafalgar Square, then set out on a three-day, fifty-mile march to Aldermaston, the headquarters of Britain's nuclear program. Their experiences are vividly conveyed in this film narrated by Richard Burton and directed by Lindsay Anderson and Karel Reisz, a storied collaboration involving several leading figures from Britain's "New Cinema" movement; Richard Burton provides a resonant reading of Christopher Logue's eloquent narrative. As much a cultural as a political document, March to Aldermaston captures a telling moment in British life, as a looser, more optimistic culture broke through the grim austerity of the postwar years. Today, the movie elicits an unexpected shock of recognition, as it restores to view a major turning point in the politics of protest, one that clearly anticipates the 1960s and still greater upheavals to come.
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