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Eric Hobsbawm: The Consolations of History (2021)
Directed by Anthony Wilks
Overview
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.
Length 83 minutes
Actors
Eric Hobsbawm | Frances Stonor Saunders | Richard Evans | John Foot | Stefan Collini | Donald Sassoon | Marlene Hobsbawm | Anthony Wilks