George Orwell's Animal Farm DVD 1999 Állatfarm / Directed by John Stephenson / Starring: Pete Postlethwaite, Alan Stanford, Caroline Gray, Gail Fitzpatrick

UPC 5999553601855  /  5999016344275  /  IPH 7174 / 5999555450017

REGION 2 PAL DVD 

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: English 5.1, Hungarian 2.0

SUBTITLES: -

Total Runtime: 88 minutes

English Summary:

Animal Farm is a made-for-TV film released in 1999 by Hallmark Films and broadcast on the American cable channel TNT. It is an adaptation of the 1945 George Orwell novel of the same name. The film tells the story of farm animals successfully revolting against their human owner, only to slide into a more brutal tyranny among themselves. The film received mixed reviews when it was broadcast, with much criticism directed at its ending.

As a bleak scene unfolds, animals are seen struggling through the mud as Jessie (Julia Ormond), an old border collie (and the narrator of the story) reflects on the events that led them to their current situation. The film flashes back years earlier.

As the abusive and rarely sober farmer, Mr. Jones (Pete Postlethwaite), struggles with debt to neighbor farmer Mr. Pilkington (Alan Stanford), Old Major (Peter Ustinov), the prize boar at Manor Farm, holds a meeting with all the animals in the barn. Major tells the animals that mankind is their enemy, for they serve and provide for mankind without reward. All the animals then start singing an anthem created by Major. The meeting is interrupted when Jones hears the singing (all he hears is just animal noises), stumbles outside the barn and accidentally fires his shotgun, killing Old Major. Jones later uses Old Major for meat. When Jones neglects to feed the animals, Boxer (Paul Scofield), the shire horse, leads the animals to the food shed, and the pigs lead a revolution against Mr. Jones.

Hungarian Summary:

George Orwell világhírű felnőttmeséje élő szereplős és animációs technikával megjelenítve.
Egy parasztudvar állatai felszabadítják magukat az ember zsarnoki uralma alól. Önkormányzatot hoznak létre és általános egyenlőségre törekszenek. A választásokon a sertések győznek, akik hamarosan kijátsszák az egyenlőség szabályait, és ugyanolyan zsarnokokká válnak, mint korábban az ember volt. A helyzet a farmon ismét ugyanaz, mint a forradalom előtt, csak most demagóg szövegek hirdetik: "itt minden az állatokért van!"

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic, whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, are widely acclaimed, as are his essays on politics, literature, language and culture. In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"

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