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George Orwell: A Life in Pictures is an Emmy award winning 2003 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the
British author George Orwell.





George Orwell – A Life in Pictures uses a bold and original approach to put him on the screen. Chris Langham plays
the writer and every word he speaks is as written by Orwell himself. But the pictures are all ‘invented’
– a specially created ‘archive’ because there’s not a single frame of archive footage of Orwell
in existence. Not even one word or one of his trademark hacking coughs on recorded audio. All that is left is one oil
painting and a couple of hundred photographs. By bringing to life his extraordinary treasure trove of writing - nine
books and some eight thousand pages of journalism, essays, diaries and letters – the film creates a unique
dramatised biography of Orwell.



Written essays become authored documentary films shot in the style of the day; events described in diaries are
‘captured’ on home movies; and Movietone footage is manipulated to reveal Orwell in the trenches of the
Spanish Civil War. From Eton and Burma to London and Paris, Orwell’s writing – poignant and polemical,
scathing and sometimes just funny – is at last caught on film.

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