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- His new film, just announced, will be Peterloo, a first cinematic telling of Manchester's notorious Peterloo Massacre in 1819, an event writ large in the nation’s social history.
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Peterloo: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst. The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in which British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.
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- Drama, History
- Mike Leigh
- 2019-04-05
Peterloo is a 2018 British historical drama, written and directed by Mike Leigh, based on the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. The film was selected to be screened in the main competition section of the 75th Venice International Film Festival.
Apr 17, 2015 · Salford director Mike Leigh has revealed he is making a film about Manchester’s infamous Peterloo Massacre. The 1819 atrocity saw 15 people killed and 700 injured when a government cavalry...
Nov 2, 2018 · Local filmgoers will at last, after fifty long Leigh years, have the chance to fete an icon’s cinematic homecoming. The whole enterprise is as worthy as a donkey’s orphanage, a clear staging post along the road to seeing an historic injustice recognised.
Apr 17, 2015 · His new film, just announced, will be Peterloo, a first cinematic telling of Manchester's notorious Peterloo Massacre in 1819, an event writ large in the nation’s social history.
Jul 26, 2018 · This is what Mike Leigh’s film about the Peterloo Massacre will look like. The first trailer for Peterloo, which tells the story of one of the bloodiest days in the city’s history, has...
Nov 2, 2018 · A new movie from filmmaker Mike Leigh, out Friday in the U.K., takes on the story of the Peterloo Massacre — but how much does the movie stick to the complicated history? Here’s what to know: Was...
