The man who nearly made fascism British — and slept his way through every party.
Jonathan Cake, Jemma Redgrave and Hugh Bonneville lead an outstanding cast in this mini-series tracing the turbulent political career and tempestuous private life of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists during the 1930s. The mini series charts Mosley's rise to political notoriety through his personal life – from youthful rising star of the Conservative Party to potential leader of the Labour Party, and later abandonment of conventional party politics to become a figurehead of burgeoning fascism.
Acting
Cake makes fascism weirdly magnetic. Uncomfortably so.
Production
Glamorous decay of interwar British politics.
Writing
Bio-pic that refuses easy villainy.
Director
John Alexander
Jonathan Cake
Oswald 'Tom' Mosley
Jemma Redgrave
Cimmie Curzon
Hugh Bonneville
Bob Boothby
Flora Montgomery
Baba
Ralph Riach
Ramsey MacDonald
Windsor Davies
David Lloyd George
Gresby Nash
Fruity Metcalfe
Emma Davies
Diana Mitford Guinness
Paul Ireland
Allan Young
Orlando Wells
Cecil Beaton
Ken Jones
JH Thomas
Eric Allan
Philip Snowden
Berwick Kaler
Arthur Henderson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jemma Redgrave is actual political royalty — her great-aunt was suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst.
Mosley survived until 1980, unrepentant; this 1998 production arrived as New Labour rebranded British leftism.
GB
