The Road to 1984

Jan 19, 1984

1h 27m

★ 7.0

Overview

1984 was not a leap into the future-but a look at the dangers already present-in Orwell's lifetime. The Road to 1984 intertwines vision and reality. It displays the passion and chronicles the career of Orwell--who warned us of what could happen if we stayed on that road--his road to 1948 and ours to 1984.

Genres

TV Movie

Drama

History

Production Companies

Granada Television

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Cast

Eric Blair/George Orwell/Winston Smith

James Fox

Eileen Blair

Janet Dale

Sonia Brownell/Julia

Julia Goodman

Susan Watson

Judy Holt

O'Brien/Doctor

Don McKillop

Goldstein

David Hirsch

Richard Blair (Snr)

Hugh Cross

Ida Blair

Pauline Jefferson

David Holbrook

Mark Jax

Cyril Connolly

Michael Wynne

Bozo

Jack Walters

Refined Tramp (Maurice)

Bryan Coleman

Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.

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