--- title: 'Comrades (1986)' type: 'film' director: 'Bill Douglas' released: '1986-01-01' runtime_minutes: 177 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'Australia' - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/comrades-1986' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092772/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Comrades (1986) 1986 · 177 min · Drama · Australia, United Kingdom ## Synopsis Comrades is a 1986 British historical drama film directed by Bill Douglas and starring an ensemble cast including Robin Soans, Phil Davis, Keith Allen, Robert Stephens, Vanessa Redgrave and James Fox. Through the pictures of a travelling lanternist, it depicts the story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, who were arrested and transported to Australia in 1834 for trying to improve their conditions by forming an early form of trade union. It was Bill Douglas's last film. ## Credits - **Director:** [Bill Douglas](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-douglas) - **Screenplay:** [Bill Douglas](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-douglas) - **Producer:** [Simon Relph](https://cinepixo.com/people/simon-relph) - **Director of Photography:** [Gale Tattersall](https://cinepixo.com/people/gale-tattersall) ## Cast - [James Fox](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-fox) - [Mark Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-brown) - [Murray Melvin](https://cinepixo.com/people/murray-melvin) - [Freddie Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/freddie-jones) - [Michael Clark](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-clark) - [Robert Stephens](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-stephens) - [Joanna David](https://cinepixo.com/people/joanna-david) - [Vanessa Redgrave](https://cinepixo.com/people/vanessa-redgrave) - [Imelda Staunton](https://cinepixo.com/people/imelda-staunton) - [Michael Hordern](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-hordern) - [Keith Allen](https://cinepixo.com/people/keith-allen) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/comrades-1986 Film facts: Wikidata (Q5157667); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.