Eric Hobsbawm: The Consolations of History

The read

It runs a compact 1h 23m.

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.

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Key crew

• Anthony WilksDirector
• Anthony WilksWriter

Cast

• Eric HobsbawmSelf
• Frances Stonor SaundersSelf
• Richard J. EvansSelf
• John FootSelf
• Stefan ColliniSelf
• Donald SassoonSelf
• Marlene HobsbawmSelf
• Anthony WilksSelf - Narrator (voice)