Summary
Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country. They mainly concentrate on ports, power stations, prisons, and manufacturing plants, but they also bring in various literary connections, as well as a few conventional landscapes.
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Only audience scores so far
Audiences 70GoodWatch 70
IMDb7.1
Audience score69%
Running time
1 h 18 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −18 min on the typical 96
typical 9678Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 4 countries, rent or buy in 1 more
Released
1997
January 10, 1997
29 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
United Kingdom
Directing · 1
- Patrick Keiller Director, Writer, Cinematography
Production · 3
- Tessa Ross Executive Producer
- Ben Gibson Executive Producer
- Keith Griffiths Producer
Editing · 1
- Larry Sider Editor
Sound · 1
- Jack Stew Foley Artist
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Film 2 of 3 · after London · then Robinson in Ruins
- London (1994)
GoodWatch score 70Film 1
- Robinson in Space (1997)
GoodWatch score 70You're here
- Robinson in Ruins (2010)
GoodWatch score 61Film 3
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