BBC Classics Collection - 4 Mini-Series (Vol. 4) - 7-DVD Box Set ( Madame Bovary / Portrait of a Marriage / Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky / Nicholas Nickleby )

BBC Classics Collection - 4 Mini-Series (Vol. 4) - 7-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$34.99

Original Title: Madame Bovary / Portrait of a Marriage / Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky / Nicholas Nickleby
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby Surround )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
810 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

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

Movie filmed in 1977 - 2005 and produced in:
New Zealand ( Australia, New Zealand )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Tim Fywell
Stephen Whittaker
Simon Curtis
Christopher Barry

Written By:
Gustave Flaubert
Heidi Thomas
Penelope Mortimer
Nigel Nicolson
Kevin Elyot
Patrick Hamilton
Charles Dickens
Hugh Leonard

Actors:
Frances O'Connor ..... Emma Bovary
Greg Wise ..... Rodolphe
Eileen Atkins ..... Marie Louise
Hugh Bonneville ..... Charles Bovary
Keith Barron ..... L'heureux
Jessica Oyelowo ..... Felicite
Trevor Peacock ..... Rouault
David Troughton ..... Homais
Joe McGann ..... Paul
Stanley Lebor ..... Binet
Joe Roberts ..... Justin
Mary MacLeod ..... Madame Lefrancois
Phillip Manikum ..... Lestiboudois
Hugh Dancy ..... Leon
Desmond Barrit ..... Guillaumin
Janet McTeer ..... Vita Sackville-West (4 episodes, 1990)
David Haig ..... Harold Nicolson (4 episodes, 1990)
Cathryn Harrison ..... Violet Keppel Trefusis (4 episodes, 1990)
Diana Fairfax ..... Lady Sackville (4 episodes, 1990)
Peter Birch ..... Denys Trefusis (4 episodes, 1990)
Alexander Pearce ..... Nigel Nicolson (4 episodes, 1990)
Yves Aubert ..... Concierge (4 episodes, 1990)
David Griffith ..... Purser (4 episodes, 1990)
Patricia Davidson ..... Lady Miles (4 episodes, 1990)
Chris Walker ..... Ben Nicolson (3 episodes, 1990)
Kathleen Byron ..... Lady Carnock (2 episodes, 1990)
Madelaine Newton ..... Mrs. Milligan (2 episodes, 1990)
Judy Elrington ..... Nanny (2 episodes, 1990)
Madeline Blakeney ..... Mrs. Staples (2 episodes, 1990)
Bryan Dick ..... Bob (3 episodes, 2005)
Sally Hawkins ..... Ella (3 episodes, 2005)
Zoë Tapper ..... Jenny Maple (3 episodes, 2005)
Jacqueline Tong ..... The Governor's Wife (3 episodes, 2005)
Tony Haygarth ..... The Governor (2 episodes, 2005)
Philip Davis ..... Ernest Eccles (2 episodes, 2005)
Neil Stuke ..... Andy (2 episodes, 2005)
Nigel Havers ..... Nicholas Nickleby (6 episodes, 1977)
Peter Bourke ..... Smike (6 episodes, 1977)
Derek Godfrey ..... Ralph Nickleby (6 episodes, 1977)
Robert James ..... Newman Noggs (6 episodes, 1977)
Kate Nicholls ..... Kate Nickleby (6 episodes, 1977)
Hilary Mason ..... Mrs. Nickleby (6 episodes, 1977)
Malcolm Reid ..... Mr. Alfred Mantalini (6 episodes, 1977)
Derek Francis ..... Wackford Squeers (5 episodes, 1977)
Patricia Routledge ..... Madame Mantalini (5 episodes, 1977)
Patsy Smart ..... Miss La Creevy (4 episodes, 1977)
Anthony Ainley ..... Sir Mulberry Hawk (4 episodes, 1977)
Nigel Hughes ..... Lord Frederick Verisopht (4 episodes, 1977)
Denis Gilmore ..... Wackford Jnr (3 episodes, 1977)
Raymond Mason ..... Charles Cheeryble (3 episodes, 1977)
Preston Lockwood ..... Tim Linkinwater (3 episodes, 1977)
Andrew McCulloch ..... John Browdie (3 episodes, 1977)
John Hewer ..... Edwin Cherryble (3 episodes, 1977)
Ron Pember ..... Mr. Snawley (3 episodes, 1977)
Isabelle Amyes ..... Miss Fanny Squeers (3 episodes, 1977)
Hetty Baynes ..... Matilda Price (3 episodes, 1977)

Synopsis:

Madame Bovary (2000)
A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover. When he refuses to run away with her, she takes up again with the law clerk. Her spending on dresses and furnishings mounts; these debts and her ill-advised professional counsel to her husband bring his ruin.
Portrait of a Marriage (1990)
Portrait of a Marriage is a British television miniseries detailing the real-life love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel, as well as the strength of Vita's enduring marriage to the diplomat Harold Nicolson.
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (2005)
A story of unrequited love set in 1930s London.
Nicholas Nickleby (1977)
Charles Dicken's classic tale of the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. On the death of his father, Nicholas seeks help from his uncle, but the assistance he recieves is double-edged.

Madame Bovary (2000)
Young and amiable country doctor Charles Bovary (Hugh Bonneville) takes a wife, Emma (Frances O'Connor), after a pleasant courtship. However, Emma's lofty expectations of marriage, and later motherhood, are soon dissolved and replaced by a sense of oppression and mediocrity. Emma takes to overspending and committing adultery to add spice to her life, engaging in affairs with a wealthy man (Greg Wise) and a lawyer (Hugh Dancy) -- steps which may ultimately lead her husband to ruin.
Portrait of a Marriage (1990)
Melodrama detailing the real-life love affair between feminist writer Vita Sackville-West and novelist Violet Keppel against the backdrop of post-World War I England and opposition by Vita's politician husband Harold Nicolson. Vita and Violet's romantic relationship becomes increasingly obsessive which spawns destructive feelings of possessiveness and jealousy between them.
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (2005)
Originally published under the title Twenty Thousand Streets in 1935, author Patrick Hamilton's semi-autobiographical trilogy is adapted for the screen by director Simon Curtis and screenwriter Kevin Elyot. The story is set in and around The Midnight Bell, a public house off the Euston Road. There, a bartender named Bob pines for pretty prostitute Jenny, despite the sad fact that she has not a penny to her name. Meanwhile, Bob remains blissfully unaware of the romantic glimpses cast his way by co-worker Ella, who is currently being courted by an older, wealthier gentleman, and desperate local Jenny struggles to keep her head about water after being forced out on the streets by circumstance.
Nicholas Nickleby (1977)
After the death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby along with his sister Kate and their mother find themselves in difficult conditions. They relocate to London in the hope that Uncle Ralph Nickleby, a successful businessman, will help them out but he proves to be difficult and cold towards his relatives. Nicholas sets off on a series of adventures starting as a school master for the one-eyed Wackford Squeers. He soon escapes the school and in the company of his new friend Smike, joins a theater group in Portsmouth. Good fortune befalls him when he meets the Cheerybles who offer him stable employment. His uncle has taken a severe dislike to the boy however and goes out of his way to make life difficult for him.

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