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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Gregor Young

'It's not a documentary': Writer responds to historical review of Scots film

The film was made back in 2013

ONE of the writers behind a 2013 drama on the General Strike in Fife has argued the film is "not a documentary" after a writer explored how accurate it was to history.

Defending the film, Lillian King said The Happy Lands, about a fictional Fife town during the 1926 General Strike in support of the miners, is “in no way an attempt to recreate the whole history of the strike”.

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