But later research suggests that the funding was provided directly by the CIA, who at the height of the McCarthy witch-hunts were keen to back a popular film with an explicitly anti-Communist message. Henry Hathaway, 1945) and 13 Rue Madeleine (US, d. The film's credited producer is Louis de Rochemont, whose major achievement up to then was the creation of the March of Time newsreel format in the US, though he had also produced feature films dealing with sensitive political issues such as The House on 92nd Street (US, d. It's an allegorical tale of the animals overthrowing their hated oppressor Farmer Jones and forming a socialist utopia - only to discover the hard way that, as Orwell so memorably put it, "some animals are more equal than others".Įvents generally parallel those in early Soviet history, with Farmer Jones as Tsar Nicholas II, Old Major as Lenin (or possibly Marx), Snowball as Trotsky and Napoleon as Stalin, though they're sufficiently generalised to be applicable to almost any other totalitarian (not necessarily Communist) state with its five-year plans, forced industrialisation/collectivisation, show trials and revisionist speeches. Show full synopsisįirst published at the end of the Second World War, George Orwell's savage satire Animal Farm (1945) expressed his profound disillusionment with Soviet Communism, whose principles he had spent much of his career defending. The animals of Manor Farm, led by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, evict the cruel Farmer Jones and take over the farm.
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