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The Fool (1990 film)

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Director
  
Music director
  
Michel Sanvoisin

Language
  
English

7.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Country
  
UK

The Fool (1990 film) movie poster

Writer
  
,
Olivier Stockman

Release date
  
December 7, 1990 (1990-12-07) (UK)

Initial release
  
December 7, 1990 (United Kingdom)

Screenplay
  
Christine Edzard, Olivier Stockman

Cast
  
(Mr. Frederick / Sir John), (The Ballad Seller),
Ruth Mitchell
(The Girl), (Lady Amelia), (Georgiana Shillibeer), (Lord Paramount)



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The Fool is a 1990 British film, produced and directed by Christine Edzard from a script by Edzard and Olivier Stockman.

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Plot

The narrative is grounded in the double life of a humble clerk who poses as the reclusive, but widely respected "Sir John." He thus moves in wealthy upper class circles and participates in grand investment schemes while living in a London slum. The movie's grand-eloquent socialist soliliquaies and detailed evocation of life in Victorian London drew on the vast personal archive of interviews about contemporary London life by Henry Mayhew.

Cast

  • Derek Jacobi as Mr. Frederick / Sir John
  • Cyril Cusack as The Ballad Seller
  • Ruth Mitchell (actor) as The Girl
  • Maria Aitken as Lady Amelia
  • Irina Brook as Georgiana Shillibeer
  • Paul Brooke as Lord Paramount
  • Richard Caldicot as Duke
  • James Cairncross as Mr. Trott
  • Jim Carter as Mr. Blackthorn
  • Jonathan Cecil as Sir Martin Locket
  • Maria Charles as The Pure Gatherer
  • Richard Clifford as George Locket
  • James Cosmo as Mr. Bowring
  • Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Harris
  • Chris Darwin as Theatre Doorman
  • Production

    Jacobi and Cusack had previously worked with Edzard on her film adaptation of Charles Dickens Little Dorrit in 1988.

    The atmospheric camerawork was by British cinematographer Robin Vidgeon.

    References

    The Fool (1990 film) Wikipedia
    The Fool (1990 film) IMDb The Fool (1990 film) themoviedb.org