Kane & Abel - Complete Series ( Kane and Abel )

Kane & Abel - Complete Series (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Kane and Abel
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Emmy Awards
Golden Globes

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
310 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Uncut

Movie filmed in 1985 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Buzz Kulik

Written By:
Jeffrey Archer
Robert W. Lenski

Actors:
Peter Strauss ..... Abel Rosnovski
Sam Neill ..... William Lowell Kane
Ron Silver ..... Thaddeus Cohen
David Dukes ..... David Osborne
Fred Gwynne ..... Davis LeRoy
Thomas Byrd ..... Richard Kane
Alberta Watson ..... Zofia Rosnovski
Reed Birney ..... Matthew Lester
Vyto Ruginis ..... George Nowak
Jill Eikenberry ..... Susan Lester
Richard Anderson ..... Alan Lloyd
Kate McNeil ..... Florentyna Rosnovski
Veronica Hamel ..... Kate Kane
Lisa Banes ..... Anne Kane
Christopher Cazenove ..... The Baron

Synopsis:

Willam Kane and Abel Rosnovski are two men whose paths were destined to meet and would change their lives forever. Kane is the son of a prominent Boston banker, Abel is the multilingual son of a Polish baron, who grew up a peasant but was taken in by the Baron not knowing that he's his father. Kane's father dies when he is very young, his mother marry Henry Osborne, while still not really over husband's death. William feels that something's not right about him, and he's right; Osborne in addition to sleeping with other women is taking money that is rightfully his mother's and William's. After his mother dies, William tells Orborne not come near him again or else. Abel would be caught by the Russians and sent to labor camp, he would escape, go to Turkey and then go to America. There he becomes the protégé of a hotel magnate. When the Great Depression of 1929 occurs, his boss is wiped out and the bank that he borrowed money from is foreclosing on his hotel, his boss kills himself. And the bank is Kane's bank. When Abel goes to see him, he tells him that there's nothing he can do, even though he opposed the foreclosure. Kane then swears that he will make Kane and his bank pay for what happened. Abel would get an ally from Osborne, who tells him, his account of what happened between him and William. And when William hears that Abel has aligned himself with Osborne, he vows to get them.

Kane & Abel is the best selling novel by Jeffrey Archer, brought to the screen by Sony Pictures Television and tells the classic tale of two ambitious men, whose lives are bound together by fate and dominated by rivalry and greed. William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant - two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune. Over sixty years and three generations, through war, marriage, fortune and disaster, Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man.

Kane and Abel are born on the same day the same year on each side of the Atlantic. William Kane are born in one of the richest families of Boston and grows up to be a banker on Wall Street. Abel Rosnovski is born in the Polish countryside and has to spend many years in Siberian prison camps before he travels to New York and eventually creates one of the world's largest chains of hotels. The confrontation between these two men, both striving for power and success, will make the finance capital of the world tremble.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 28 October, 2021.

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