Date
Hour
Place
03/08
20:30
CASTLE, JANOWIEC
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
reż|dir Tony Richardson | GB | 1962 | 104 min
prod|pro Tony Richardson scen|wr Allan Sillitoe zdj|ph Walter Lassally muz|mus John Addison mon|ed Anthony Gibbs ob|cast Tom Courtney, Michael Redgrave, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen, James Bolam, Joe Robinson, Dervis Ward, Topsy Jane, Julia Foster
DESCRIPTION
A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs, reveries of his life and times before his incarceration lead him to re-evaluate his privileged status as the Governor’s prize runner.
CO-ORGANIZAR | Arttech Cinema
AWARDS
1963 BAFTA Awards – Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles (Tom Courtenay)DIRECTOR
Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson (1928 – 1991) was an English theatre and film director and producer. In the 1950s, he promoted dramas of the new wave in the theatre and was a member of the Free Cinema documentary group (“Momma Don't Allow” 1956). At the end of the decade, he became a co-founder of Woodfall Films and a significant creator of the British new wave film movement. He made the most outstanding films in 1958-1968: “Look Back in Anger” (1959), “The Taste of Honey” (1961), “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner”. (1962), “Tom Jones” (Oscar, 1963) and “The Charge of the Light Brigade”. (1968).
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