Handlung
In diesem Film erzählt Richard Attenborough vom stürmischen Aufstieg eines der größten Politiker des 20. Jahrhunderts – mit einem außerordentlich komplexen Privatleben. Eitel, rebellisch und extrem ehrgeizig, ist Winston Churchill das Produkt der leidenschaftlichen Verbindung zwischen dem politischen Versager Lord Randolph und der hochmütigen, in Brooklyn geborenen Lady Jennie. Von seinen Eltern entfremdet, investiert der junge Winston seine gesamte Energie in seine Bemühungen, Liebe durch Leistung zu gewinnen. Er beginnt seine Laufbahn als Kriegskorrespondent in Indien und wird später während des Burenkriegs in Südafrika zum Helden. Schließlich stürzt sich Churchill in eine politische Karriere, die ihn aus der Ächtung direkt in die heiligen Hallen des Parlaments führt. DER JUNGE LÖWE ist die unvergessliche Geschichte und das große Abenteuer eines Mannes in seinem ganzen Glanz und Ruhm!
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Besetzung
Simon Ward
Winston Churchill
Peter Cellier
Le capitaine du 35e Sikhs
Robert Shaw
Lord Randolph Churchill
Anne Bancroft
Lady Jennie Churchill
Jack Hawkins
Mr. Welldon
Ian Holm
George E. Buckle
Anthony Hopkins
David Llyod George
Edward Woodward
Captain Aylmer Haldane
John Mills
General Kitchner
Patrick Magee
General Bindon Blood
James Cosmo
Officer on Train
Jane Seymour
Pamela Plowden
Robert Hardy
Prep School Headmaster
Laurence Naismith
Lord Salisbury
Reginald Marsh
Prince of Wales
Dinsdale Landen
Capt. Weaver
John Woodvine
Howard
Clive Morton
Dr. Roose
Robert Flemyng
Dr. Buzzard
Richard Leech
Moore
Colin Blakely
Butcher
Andrew Faulds
Mounted Boer
Edward Burnham
Henry Labouchere
Russell Lewis
Winston (age 7)
Norman Gay
Sir Charles W. Dilke (uncredited)
Ronald Hines
Adjutant
Dino Shafeek
Sikh Solider
Pat Haywood
Mrs. Everest
William Dexter
Arthur Balfour
Basil Dignam
Joseph Chamberlain
John Stuart
Speaker Peel
Noel Davis
Interviewer
Michael Audreson
Winston (aged 13)
Peter Mann
Harrow Speech Room Boy
Julian Holloway
Capt. Baker
Thorley Walters
Major Finn
Patrick Holt
Colonel Martin
Norman Bird
Party Chairman
Gerald Sim
Engineer
Ron Pember
Fireman
Maurice Roëves
Brockie
James Cossins
Barnsby
Norman Rossington
Dewsnap
Pippa Steel
Clementine Hozier
Robert Harris
Speaker Gully
Raymond Huntley
Old Officer
Jack Armstrong
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Jack Arrow
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Richard Beal
Boer Sentry (uncredited)
Alan Beaton
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Hyma Beckley
Opposition MP (uncredited)
Ernest Blyth
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Vic Chapman
Clerk of the Commons (uncredited)
Jimmy Charters
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Jeremy Child
Austen Chamberlain (uncredited)
Alan Cope
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Brenda Cowling
Mrs. Dewsnap (uncredited)
Arnold Diamond
Officer (uncredited)
Willoughby Gray
Gladstone (uncredited)
Victor Harrington
House of Commons Doorkeeper (uncredited)
Alan Harris
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Nigel Hawthorne
Boer Sentry (uncredited)
Lindsay Hooper
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Kevin Hudson
Jack Winston (uncredited)
Juba Kennerley
Harrow school master (uncredited)
Robert Lankesheer
Sympathetic MP (uncredited)
Roy Lansford
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Raymond Mason
Man in Theatre Gallery (uncredited)
George Mikell
Field Cornet (uncredited)
Hugh Morton
Lord Randolph Churchill's Butler (uncredited)
Fred Peck
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Bob Raymond
Man on Stage (uncredited)
Tony Snell
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Byron Sotiris
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Guy Standeven
Harrow School Master (uncredited)
Fred Stroud
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
John Tatham
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Harry Tierney
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Sanders Watney
Sir Winston (uncredited)
John Wilder
Member of Parliament (uncredited)
