Charge of the Light Brigade

The final instalment in this celebration of Redgrave’s early film career. This satirical account of wartime Victorian England elicits brilliant performances from John Gielgud and Vanessa Redgrave in a tale of the contrasts between aristocracy and the lower classes. Redgrave appeared with her mother, Rachel Kempson, brother Corin and daughters Natasha and Joely in her ex-husband Tony Richardson’s film.

This screening forms part of Vanessa Redgrave on Screen - The 1960s set the tone for the whole of Vanessa Redgrave’s screen career with a series of key roles in seminal films that reflected and expressed an era of social and cultural transformation. To complement the BAFTA: A life in pictures event, Brighton Festival and Cinecity present a selection of her early movie milestones.

In association with Cinecity and Duke of York’s Picturehouse