Keep the Aspidistra Flying

6.0

Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.

Discover

Helena Bonham Carter

Rosemary

Richard E. Grant

Gordon Comstock

Julian Wadham

Ravelston

Jim Carter

Erskine

Harriet Walter

Julia Comstock

Lesley Vickerage

Hermione

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Mrs. Wisbeach

Liz Smith

Mrs Meakin

John Clegg

McKechnie

Malcolm Sinclair

Paul Doring

Ben Miles

Ravenscroft Waiter

Dorothy Atkinson

Dora

Mark Chapman

Court Room Journalist (uncredited)

Art

Sarah Greenwood

Production Design

Philip Robinson

Art Direction

Camera

Giles Nuttgens

Director of Photography

Mark Milsome

Focus Puller

Costume & Make-Up

Sarah Grispo

Makeup Artist

Diane Chenery-Wickins

Makeup Artist

James Keast

Costume Design

Directing

Robert Bierman

Director

Editing

Bill Wright

Editor

Production

Robert Bierman

Executive Producer

John Wolstenholme

Executive Producer

Michelle Guish

Casting

Peter Shaw

Producer

Sound

Mike Batt

Original Music Composer

Writing

Alan Plater

Screenplay

George Orwell

Novel