Produced and directed by Lindsay Anderson Paramount Pictures
Lindsay Anderson’s classic film about rebellion: a satire of the cruel, archaic system of boarding education at a time when freedom and individuality were at the heart of youth. It won the Palme d’Or at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.
The film stars Malcolm MacDowell as Mick Travis, one of three rebel schoolboys who take on the authority of the school in a murderous revolution that speaks to the fantasy of many a boarding school survivor. It was regarded by many as a metaphor for the social and political situation in the UK at the time.