Rating:
4.1/10 by 5 users
The History Man (1981)
Ardently left-wing, or so it seems, Howard Kirk (Antony Sher) subtly extends his power over students and colleagues alike at a redbrick university.
Writing:
Release Date:
Sun, Jan 04, 1981
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Antony Sher
Howard Kirk
Geraldine James
Barbara Kirk
Isla Blair
Flora Beniform
Paul Brooke
Henry Beamish
Laura Davenport
Annie Callendar
Michael Hordern
Prof Marvin
Peter-Hugo Daly
George Carmody
Veronica Quilligan
Felicity Phee
Maggie Steed
Myra Beamish
Zienia Merton
Miss Ho
Steve Plytas
Mangel
Lloyd Peters
Michael Bernard
Julia Swift
Becky Pott
Miriam Margolyes
Melissa Tordoroff
Jonathan Bruton
Martin Kirk
Charlotte Enderby
Celia Kirk
Elizabeth Proud
Moira Millikin
Judy Liebert
Jane McIntosh
Milo Sperber
Dr Zachery
Bill Buffery
Peter Madden
Jane Slaughter
Joanna
Chloe Salaman
Anne Petty
Season 1:
Howard and Barbara Kirk , fashionable Watermouth University's well-known progressive couple, are throwing one of their celebrated parties. Another fresh term—new faces to radicalise, old issues and adversaries to be confronted. History needs some action and Howard has just the scheme for an autumn of disruption.
The Kirk seminar is an advanced scholastic encounter with George Carmody, the perfect teaching aid and the only boy in the university with a trouser press. For Howard, a bonus in confronting the liberal establishment. But first there's the party to be scrutinised with Flora, and indeed Annie and Felicity.
The departmental meeting. A setting of legendary divisiveness for the fruition of Howard's master plan. But with Professor Marvin a reluctant combatant and Howard's varied extra-mural activities under novel surveillance, the inevitability of the plot is no longer totally in the author's hands.
History charges everyone a price for the stands they choose to make. Howard seems to be about to pay his dues, but in the fight for his academic life, the University is the battlefield. As in any war the choice of survivors—and casualties—is very arbitrary and contingent.
