Little Dorrit (film)
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Director Christine Edzard | 7.6/10 IMDb Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Christine Edzard , Charles Dickens Release date December 11, 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Little Dorrit is a 1987 film adaptation of the novel Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens. It was written and directed by Christine Edzard, and produced by John Brabourne and Richard B. Goodwin. The music, by Giuseppe Verdi, was arranged by Michael Sanvoisin.
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The film stars Derek Jacobi as Arthur Clennam and Sarah Pickering in the title role. A huge cast of seasoned British stage and film actors was assembled to play the dozens of roles. Among them are Alec Guinness, Simon Dormandy, Joan Greenwood, Roshan Seth, Miriam Margolyes, Cyril Cusack, and Max Wall.
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film in originally released in two parts.
Production
Little Dorrit lasts 360 minutes and was released in two parts of approximately three hours each. The first part was subtitled Nobodys Fault, an allusion to one of Dickens proposed titles for the original novel, and the story developed from the perspective and experiences of the Arthur Clennam character. The second film, entitled Little Dorrits Story, took many of the same events and presented them through the eyes of the heroine. Together they represented overlapping chronicles.
The production company which made the film, Sands Films, is operated by Christine Edzard, the director, and her husband, Richard B. Goodwin. The film was nominated for two Oscars: Actor in a Supporting Role (Alec Guinness) and Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) (Christine Edzard). The Region Two DVD was released in the UK on October 27, 2008.
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