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Keep the Aspidistra Flying (released in the United States, New Zealand, South Africa and Zimbabwe as A Merry War) is a 1997 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Robert Bierman and based on the 1936 novel by George Orwell.
Aug 28, 1998 · A Merry War: Directed by Robert Bierman. With Richard E. Grant, Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Wadham, Jim Carter. Gordon Comstock quits his job at an advertising agency in order to write poetry, only to find that poets, like everyone else, need money.
- (1.6K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Robert Bierman
- 1998-08-28
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results. Background.
- George Orwell
- 1936
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- Robert Bierman
- 101 min
- 14
Aug 28, 1998 · "A Merry War" is the insipid and enigmatic new title for a film released in England as "Keep the Aspidistra Flying." That also may not be an inspired title, but at least it is the title of the famous 1936 novel by George Orwell, and a pun on the communist slogan "Keep the Red Flag Flying."
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Aug 28, 1998 · Alan Plater. Screenplay. 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.
