Squaring the Circle (Original title)
Dates: 1984 (Copyright), 31 May 1984 (Television)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirector: Mike Hodges
Synopsis: Adaptation of Tom Stoppard's play about the Solidarity movement in Poland. Between August 1980 and December 1981, Poland tried to join two opposing concepts: freedom (as it is understood in the West) and Socialism (as it is known in the East). Understandably, this failed.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Poland, Politics, Solidarity (trade union)
TV Transmissions
Date: 31 May 1984Broadcast channel: Channel FourCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:30Runtime: 99 mins 30 secs - Network - Dialogue (original): English - ColourAspect ratio: 4:3 - Sound
Date: 22 January 1987Broadcast channel: Channel FourCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:30-23:25Slot duration: 115 minsNetwork - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Dates: 1984 (Copyright), 31 May 1984 (Television)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirector: Mike Hodges
Synopsis: Adaptation of Tom Stoppard's play about the Solidarity movement in Poland. Between August 1980 and December 1981, Poland tried to join two opposing concepts: freedom (as it is understood in the West) and Socialism (as it is known in the East). Understandably, this failed.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Poland, Politics, Solidarity (trade union)
TV Transmissions
Date: 31 May 1984Broadcast channel: Channel FourCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:30Runtime: 99 mins 30 secs - Network - Dialogue (original): English - ColourAspect ratio: 4:3 - Sound
Date: 22 January 1987Broadcast channel: Channel FourCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:30-23:25Slot duration: 115 minsNetwork - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Credits
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©: TVS Ltd., Production Company: A TVS Production, In association with: Metromedia Production Company, In association with: Britannic Film & Television Ltd., [Produced] For: Channel Four, Executive Producer: Peter Snell, Executive Producer: Stephen Schlow, Produced by: Frederick Brogger, Associate Producer: Ted Lloyd, Executive in Charge of Production: James Gatward, Executive in Charge of Production: Bruce Marson, Casting: Debbie McWilliams, Written by: Tom Stoppard, Director of Photography: Michael Garfath, Special Effects: Martin Gutteridge, Editor: John Bloom, Editor: Eric Boyd-Perkins, Production Designer: Voytek, Titles: Optical Film Effects, Laboratory: Technicolor, Music Composed by: Roy Budd, Sound Recordist: Christopher Munro, Sound Editor: Chris Greenham, Filmed at: Pinewood Studios
Cast
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Peter Bayliss, Henry Moxon, Tom Wilkinson, John Antrobus, Brian Cox, Bernard Hill (Lech Walesa), Alec McCowen (Rakowski), Roy Kinnear (Kania), John Woodvine (Gierek), Richard Kane (Jaruzelski), Don Henderson (Kuron), Frank Middlemass (Brezhnev), John Bluthal (Babiuch), Richard Crenna (the narrator), Vovka Ashkenazy, Bob Cartland (Szydlak)