The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura

The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura

89 mins | Dec. 12, 1983

A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell. The book he has come to write is Nineteen Eighty-four.

The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura

89 mins | Dec. 12, 1983

The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura
A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell. The book he has come to write is Nineteen Eighty-four.
Producers
Original title The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura
Directors John Glenister
Writers Alan Plater

Cast

Ronald Pickup

as George Orwell

Fiona Walker

as Avril

David Swift

as Richard Rees

Kit Thacker

as Bill Dunn

Melanie Parr

as Susan Watson

Lucinda Gane

as Margaret Fletcher

Eileen McCallum

as Shopkeeper

Billy Riddoch

as Donald Darroch