Cromwell 1970

An accurate historical account of the 17th-century civil war that divided England into two opposing camps, and of the English bourgeois revolution. The film focuses primarily on the confrontation between Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I. Cromwell is an idealist, devoted to his cause, with cold, haunted eyes, a hoarse voice, and an unyielding spirit. He is determined, at any cost, to save his beloved England from the corruption of a weak, greedy court and to establish the authority of a parliament that would be truly democratic, represent the interests of the people, and not be a puppet of the king...