A Merry War (1997)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
101 min
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.
- Release date
- November 20, 1997
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
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Cast
- Helena Bonham Carter as Rosemary
- Richard E. Grant as Gordon Comstock
- Julian Wadham as Ravelston
- Jim Carter as Erskine
- Harriet Walter as Julia Comstock
- Lesley Vickerage as Hermione
- Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Mrs. Wisbeach
- Liz Smith as Mrs. Meakin
- John Clegg as McKechnie
- Malcolm Sinclair as Paul Doring
- Ben Miles as Ravenscroft Waiter
- Dorothy Atkinson as Dora
- Mark Chapman as Court Room Journalist (uncredited)
- Lucy Speed as Factory Worker
- Bill Wallis as Mr. Cheeseman
Crew
- Robert Bierman · Director
- Alan Plater · Writer
- George Orwell · Writer
- Peter Shaw · Producer
- Mike Batt · Composer
- Giles Nuttgens · Cinematographer
- Bill Wright · Editor
- Michelle Guish · Casting director
- Sarah Greenwood · Production designer