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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
자신의 이름이 새겨진 총과 검으로 무장한 채 부하들과 함께 전세계를 떠돌며 피 비린내 나는 전투와 약탈을 이어나가던 솔로몬 케인. 어느 날, 포로를 구출하기 위해 공격한 성에서 케인은 자신을 지옥으로 끌고 가려는 악마 ‘리퍼’를 만나 죽음의 사투를 벌이게 되고, 치열한 전투 끝에 가까스로 ‘리퍼’를 피해 도망친 그는 자신의 영혼을 구원받기 위해 절대 칼을 들지 않겠노라 맹세하며 수도원으로 향하게 된다. 끊임없는 악마의 유혹을 피해 정처 없는 참회의 길을 걷던 솔로몬 케인은 윌리엄 가족을 만나 단 한 번도 느껴보지 못했던 가족의 정을 알게 된다. 하지만 악마의 군대는 윌리엄의 가족을 몰살시키고 큰딸인 메레디스를 납치하기에 이른다. 분노에 사로잡힌 케인은 구원의 맹세를 깬 채 악마의 군대에게 끌려간 메레디스를 위해 칼을 들게 되고, 자신의 영혼과 나아가 세상을 구원할 외로운 전쟁을 시작하게 되는데...
