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Eric Hobsbawm: The Consolations of History

10.0 83 mins Documentary   2021
Director(s): Anthony Wilks

In this feature-length documentary, Anthony Wilks traces the connections between the events of Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told, from his teenage years in Germany as Hitler came to power and his communist membership, to the jazz clubs of 1950s Soho and the makings of New Labour, taking in Italian bandits, Peruvian peasant movements and the development of nationalism in the modern world, with help from the assiduous observations of MI5.

Casts of Eric Hobsbawm: The Consolations of History

Eric Hobsbawm

as Self

John Foot

as Self

Stefan Collini

as Self

Donald Sassoon

as Self

Anthony Wilks

as Self - Narrator (voice)

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