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Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)
Directed by Robert Bierman
Comedy, Drama, Romance · 1h 41m
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
Cast
Helena Bonham Carter
Rosemary
Richard E. Grant
Gordon Comstock
Julian Wadham
Ravelston
Jim Carter
Erskine
Harriet Walter
Julia Comstock
Lesley Vickerage
Hermione
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Mrs. Wisbeach
Liz Smith
Mrs Meakin
John Clegg
McKechnie
Malcolm Sinclair
Paul Doring
Ben Miles
Ravenscroft Waiter
Dorothy Atkinson
Dora
Crew
- Director
- Robert Bierman
- Screenplay
- Alan Plater
- Novel
- George Orwell
- Director of Photography
- Giles Nuttgens
- Original Music Composer
- Mike Batt
- Editor
- Bill Wright
- Producer
- Peter Shaw
Details
- Release date
- 1997-11-20
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- BBC Film