Movie Description
Hampstead Theatre At Home: Drawing The Line
(2020)Overview
London, 1947. Summoned by the Prime Minister from the Court where he is presiding judge, Cyril Radcliffe is given an unlikely mission. He is to travel to India, a country he has never visited, and, with limited survey information, no expert support and no knowledge of cartography, he is to draw the border which will divide the Indian sub-continent into two new Sovereign Dominions. To make matters even more challenging, he has only six weeks to complete the task. Wholly unsuited to his role, Radcliffe is unprepared for the dangerous whirlpool of political intrigue and passion into which he is plunged – untold consequences may even result from the illicit liaison between the Leader of the Congress Party and the Viceroy’s wife… As he begins to break under the pressure he comes to realise that he holds in his hands the fate of millions of people.
Cast
PETHICK LAWRENCE/SARGEANT
JINNAH
Cyril Radcliffe
Edwina Mountbatten
NEHRU
ANTONIA RADCLIFFE
MR JUSTICE MEHER/CHAND MAHAJAN/VILLAGER
GANDHI/ELDER/TEJA SINGH
MOUNTBATTEN
DALIT WOMAN/KALVATI
CHAUDRI/AIDE TO NEHRU/INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHER
RAO VD AYER/YOUNG MAN
LIAQUAT/VILLAGER/AIDE TO NEHRU/DIN MOHAMMED
CHRISTOPHER BEAUMONT
DALI WOMAN/TARAVATI
YOUNG MAN/AIDE TO JINNAH/LORD KRISHNA
Clement Atlee
Facts
Original TitleHampstead Theatre At Home: Drawing The Line
Status Released
Release Information
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2020-04-13
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 02h 15m
Homepagehttps://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/2013/drawing-the-line/