Rosamunde Pilcher Collection - 12-DVD Box Set ( Coming Home / Nancherrow / Winter Solstice / Summer Solstice / The Shell Seekers / Four Seasons (4 Seasons) / September ) ( Heimkehr / Das große Erbe / Wintersonne / Zauber der Liebe / Die Muschelsucher / Vier Jahreszeiten / September )

Rosamunde Pilcher Collection - 12-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Coming Home / Nancherrow / Winter Solstice / Summer Solstice / The Shell Seekers / Four Seasons (4 Seasons) / September
Alternate Title: Heimkehr / Das große Erbe / Wintersonne / Zauber der Liebe / Die Muschelsucher / Vier Jahreszeiten / September
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
1407 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1996 - 2008 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Giles Foster
Simon Langton
Martyn Friend
Piers Haggard
Colin Bucksey

Written By:
Rosamunde Pilcher
John Goldsmith
William Corlett
Brian Finch
Matthew Thomas
Lee Langley

Actors:
Peter O'Toole ..... Colonel Edgar Carey-Lewis
Joanna Lumley ..... Diana Carey-Lewis
Penelope Keith ..... Aunt Louise
Anneliese Uhlig ..... Aunt Lavinia
David McCallum ..... Billy Fawcett
Emily Mortimer ..... Judith Dunbar
Gruschenka Stevens ..... Athena Carey-Lewis
Paul Bettany ..... Edward Carey-Lewis
Katie Ryder Richardson ..... Loveday Carey-Lewis
George Asprey ..... Dr. Jeremy Wells
Heikko Deutschmann ..... Gus
Patrick Ryecart ..... Tommy Mortimer
Carol Drinkwater ..... Biddy
Susan Hampshire ..... Miss Catto
Quentin Jones ..... Walter
Lara-Joy Körner ..... Judith Dunbar
George Asprey ..... Jeremy Wells
Philipp Moog ..... Gus Cullendar
Tristan Gemmill ..... Walter
Robert Hardy ..... Viscount Berryann
Lynda Baron ..... Dashka
Jake Gomme ..... Young Nat
Josh Wynter ..... Older Nat
Emily Hamilton ..... Jess
Simon Dutton ..... Ronny Cox
Lucy Robinson ..... Laura Cox
Jan Niklas ..... Oscar Blundell
Geraldine Chaplin ..... Gloria Blundell
Sinéad Cusack ..... Elfrida Phibbs
Emma Streets ..... Francesca 'Fran' Blundell
Sophie Schütt ..... Carrie Marchmont
Ralf Bauer ..... Andreas Mendel
Peter Ustinov ..... Hughie McLellan
Jason Durr ..... Sam Howard
Jean Simmons ..... Countess Lucinda Rhives
Anna Maguire ..... Lucy Marchmont
Marsha Fitzalan ..... Didi Marchmont
John Bird ..... Barry
Maureen Lipman ..... Marcia
Gregory Finnegan ..... Giles
Alastair Bruce ..... Rory Kennedy
Jacqueline Bisset ..... Alexia
Lara-Joy Körner ..... Carrie
Jan Niklas ..... Oscar
Jason Durr ..... Sam
Sinéad Cusack ..... Elfrida
Honor Blackman ..... Countess Lucinda Reeves
Franco Nero ..... Lorenzo
Björn Casapietra ..... Leo
Martin Dingle-Wall ..... Scott Allen
Anna Maguire ..... Lucy
Alastair Bruce ..... Rory
Amanda Beam ..... Helena - Midsummer Night's Dream
Paul Brooke ..... Derek
Janet Brown ..... Mrs. Armstrong
Andrew Byatt ..... Music School Director
Vanessa Redgrave ..... Penelope Keeling
Maximilian Schell ..... Lawrence Sterne
Maisie Dimbleby ..... Young Penelope
Victoria Hamilton ..... Nancy Chamberlaine
Sebastian Koch ..... Cosmo König
Stephanie Stumph ..... Antonia König
Victoria Smurfit ..... Olivia Keeling
Charles Edwards ..... Noel Keeling
Toby Fisher ..... Ambrose Keeling
Lukas Gregorowicz ..... Danus Muirfield
Alastair Mackenzie ..... Richard
Prunella Scales ..... Dolly Keeling
Richard Hope ..... George Chamberlaine
Cherith Mellor ..... Mrs. Plackett
Hugh Sachs ..... Roy Brookner
Senta Berger ..... Julia Combe (4 episodes, 2008-2009)
Tom Conti ..... Charles Combe
Michael York ..... Stephen Combe
Paula Kalenberg ..... Abigail 'Abby' Combe (4 episodes, 2008-2009)
Perdita Weeks ..... Imogen Combe (4 episodes, 2008-2009)
Tim Delap ..... Tom Tresillian (4 episodes, 2008-2009)
Juliet Mills ..... Lady Florence Combe (4 episodes, 2008-2009)
Angela Douglas ..... Mrs Edwina Webber (4 episodes, 2008-2009)
Tina Grawe ..... Georgina 'Gina' Combe (4 episodes, 2008-2009)
Terence Harvey ..... Mr Spalding
Frank Finlay ..... Alexander 'Alex' Combe
Natalia Wörner ..... Charlotte Combe (2 episodes, 2009)
James Roache ..... Lucas Conroy
John Light ..... Simon Maxwell
Maximilian von Pufendorf ..... Jamie Wilson
Joe Hall ..... Hendry (2 episodes, 2008)
Franco Nero ..... Max Freeman
Jack Ashton ..... Martin (2 episodes, 2008)
Jacqueline Bisset ..... Pandora
Edward Fox ..... Archie
Michael York ..... Edmund
Mariel Hemingway ..... Virginia
Virginia McKenna ..... Violet
Jenny Agutter ..... Isobel
Paul Guilfoyle ..... Conrad
Judy Parfitt ..... Verena
Angela Pleasence ..... Lottie
Anna Cropper ..... Edie
Emily Hamilton ..... Alexa
Jesse Birdsall ..... Neil
Thomas Szekeres ..... Henry
Sarah Winman ..... Lucilla
David Pullan ..... Jeff

Synopsis:

Rosamunde Pilcher - The Complete Set. Best-selling novelist Rosamunde Pilcher is renowned for her storytelling. Her rich, romantic tales and their beautiful settings are captured perfectly in this special seven disc DVD boxed set which contains five sumptuous adaptations based on Pilcher's books: Coming Home, Nancherrow, Winter Solstice, Summer Solstice and The Shell Seekers. The films feature a star-studded cast which reads like a who's who of great actors including Joanna Lumley, Peter O'Toole, David McCallum, Honor Blackman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean Simmons, Sinead Cusack, Peter Ustinov, Robert Hardy, Maximilian Schell and Vanessa Redgrave. Coming Home introduces the glamorous and wealthy Carey-Lewis family and Judith Dunbar. Judith is at boarding school and her family is in Singapore at the outbreak of the Second World War. When she loses touch with her family the Carey-Lewis's welcom her into their home.This story is continued in Nancherrow when the family must struggle to come to terms with post-war Britain. Winter Solstice is an entrancing story of shattered lives and broken hearts. When Elfrida Phipps moves she soon befriends her new neighbours. Tragedy strikes and they all decamp to a house on a Scottish Estate. Set in the beautiful wild Highlands of Scotland the saga is continued in Summer Solstice. The Shell Seekers is the story of love, family life and an exquisite painting that has captivated millions and which tears a family apart.

Coming Home (1998)
Drama series about the Dunar and Carey-Lewis families, before during and after WW2.

Nancherrow (1999)
After the Colonel dies it is his irrepressible daughter, Loveday, who inherits the house and all of its problems. Bewitched by the magic of Nancherrow, Loveday fights to keep the estate going so that, in time, her young son Nat may inherit the house. While dealing with the reappearance of her one true love Gus and her failing marriage to Walter. Meanwhile Judith is finding life as the wife of the doctor difficult. It is a time of much change and heartfelt expectation for everyone at Nancherrow.

Winter Solstice (2003)
When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic.

Summer Solstice (2005)
It is summer three years on and we return to wild Scottish Highlands and the residents of Cregean that we came to know and love in Rosamunde Pilcher's Winter Solstice. Former actress, Elfrida Phipps, has settled into a quiet life along side choir master Oscar Blundell and their dog Horace. Sam Howard, owner of the local paper, has found the peace and happiness he never knew was possible in the arms of the independent and beautiful Carrie. Lucinda, the countess, enjoys a new found lease of life away from the burden of the castle, her ancestral home recently transformed into a hotel. Vicar's son, Rory, and Carrie's sister, Lucy, enjoy the long warm days of summer, away from university, rekindling the spark they have always held for one and other. It is not long before unforeseen events conspire to upset this peace and tranquillity though - A libel case brought against the newspaper sends shockwaves through the local community and brings Sam into contact with the seductively intelligent authoress Alexia. Carrie, meanwhile, struggles with the smooth running of the newly formed hotel and how a not fully committed Sam will deal with her recently discovered 'condition'. Oscar, with help from the loving and supportive Elfrida, is forced to face the demons that have plagued him since the death of his daughter, Francesca, when a young boy, Brodie, finds his way into their lives. The seemingly unbreakable bond between Rory and Lucy is threatened, by the arrival of Todd, a young, mysterious and attractive backpacker. He holds a secret set to change the countess' life even more dramatically than the devilishly handsome gentleman staying at the castle hotel. Summer Solstice is a collection of love stories about, and for, people of all different ages and generations. Each character's tale connects, weaving in and out of the others, mirroring and countering them so that, as the long hot summer draws to its close, each is forced to examine their lives and decide to whom their loyalties lie or else risk loosing everything they hold so dear.

The Shell Seekers (2006)
Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a bohemian childhood in London and the wilds of Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she ever truly loved. She has brought up three very different children: Olivia, her 'special child', who like her mother is both tough and vulnerable; Noel, her ruthless and selfish son, and Nancy, the first born, embittered by greed and jealousy. It is a mild heart-attack that allows the sixty-four year old to take the time to reflect on her past life. Having discharged herself from hospital, the energetic and independent Penelope returns home to her ramshackle cottage in the English countryside. From here she travels to the Mediterranean paradise of Ibiza to stay with Olivia. Here she meets her daughter's lover, Cosmo, and his daughter, the young and beautiful Antonia, all the while reminiscing about her time during the war. The story unfolds like a jigsaw, switching between the 1940's and the present day. We learn of her marriage to Ambrose and the subsequent birth of the three so dissimilar children she has, over time, learned to accept for who they are. And of Richard, the dashing, romantic man she loved and was to marry but ultimately lost to the war. This story of lost love is mirrored in the present by that of Antonia, who comes to live with Penelope, and her love for the mysterious Danus. The secrets, passions and heartbreaks of Penelope's past threaten to be repeated by the young couple unless they can learn from her misfortune and be honest with one and other. It is the discovery that her most treasured possession, her father's painting, The Shell Seekers, is now worth a small fortune though that proves most alarming. For it is only then, as her 'loved ones' gather, that their true characters come to light and Penelope is forced to make the decisions that will determine whether they can continue to survive as a family, or be split apart. This is an adaptation of the work of Rosamunde Pilcher, based on the novel of the same name that has sold over 5 million copies world-wide and propelled her to the top of the international best-seller lists.

Four Seasons (2008)
Season 1, Episode 1: Summer
Original Air Date-25 December 2008
Endellion, the magnificent country seat of the aristocratic Combe family, sets the scene for a sweeping saga playing out within one eventful year. At the center are three women of three different generations: Julia, banished from Endellion, whose return triggers the turbulent events; Abby, her granddaughter, who wants to know the secret of her past so that she can face the future; Charlotte, Julia's daughter and Abby's mother, who allegedly killed herself but who is still very much alive in the hearts of the Combe family - and perhaps somewhere near Endellion as well.
Season 1, Episode 2: Autumn
Original Air Date-25 December 2008
Season 1, Episode 3: Winter
Original Air Date-25 December 2009
Season 1, Episode 4: Spring
Original Air Date-25 December 2009'

September (1996)
Adapted from a novel by Rosemunde Pilcher, the British miniseries September boasted a fairly impressive cast in a fairly impressive production. Jacqueline Bisset starred as Pandora, a worldly middle-aged woman who after many years at large returned to her hometown, a provincial Scottish village. No sooner had Pandora arrived than she lived up to her name by opening a veritable trunk full of uncomfortable memories - especially among those with whom she had been 'familiar' in the old days. A Portman production, September was offered in two 90-minute installments by Britain's Sky One satellite service in 1995.

List of Screen Adaptations:
Coming Home (1998)
Nancherrow (1999)
Winter Solstice (2003)
Summer Solstice (2005)
The Shell Seekers (2006)
Four Seasons (2008)
September (1996)

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 25 October, 2011.