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Eric Hobsbawm: The Consolations of History

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Eric Hobsbawm: The Consolations of History

10.0

1h 23m

2021

Synopsis

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.

Director

Anthony Wilks

Documentary

Cast & Crew

Eric Hobsbawm

as Self

Frances Stonor Saunders

as Self

Richard J. Evans

Richard J. Evans

as Self

John Foot

as Self

Stefan Collini

as Self

Donald Sassoon

Donald Sassoon

as Self

Marlene Hobsbawm

as Self

Anthony Wilks

as Self - Narrator (voice)

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