
The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura
December 12, 1983•1h 29m•★ 7.0
DramaTV Movie
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.
Director
John GlenisterWriters
Cast

Ronald Pickup
George Orwell
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Fiona Walker
Avril Blair
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David Swift
Richard Rees
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Kit Thacker
Bill Dunn
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Melanie Parr
Susan Watson
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Lucinda Gane
Margaret Fletcher

Eileen McCallum
Shopkeeper

Billy Riddoch
Donald Darroch

Robin Davies
Henry Dakins
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Sally Kinghorn
Lucy Dakin
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Wendy Marsh
Jane Dakin
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Graeme Rozga
Richard Blair (Age 2)
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Ross Rozga
Richard Blair (Age 13)