Portrait of a Marriage - 2-DVD Set

Portrait of a Marriage - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

$21.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
220 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 1990 and produced in:
New Zealand ( Australia, New Zealand )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Stephen Whittaker

Written By:
Penelope Mortimer
Nigel Nicolson

Actors:
Janet McTeer ..... Vita Sackville-West
David Haig ..... Harold Nicolson
Cathryn Harrison ..... Violet Keppel Trefusis
Diana Fairfax ..... Lady Sackville
Peter Birch ..... Denys Trefusis
Chris Walker ..... Ben Nicolson (as Christopher Walker)
Alexander Pearce ..... Nigel Nicolson
Madeline Blakeney ..... Mrs. Staples - part 2
Judy Elrington ..... Nanny - parts 1 & 2
Nicola Hammett ..... Young Vita - part 1
Hannah Cresswell ..... Young Violet - part 1
Mark Tandy ..... Reggie Cooper - part 2
Sam Beazley ..... Lord Carnock - part 2
Kathleen Byron ..... Lady Carnock - parts 2 & 4
Hazel Douglas ..... Landlady - part 2

Synopsis:

In 1918, Sir Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West are a golden couple. He is destined for a high rank in the diplomatic corps; she is the daughter of Lord and Lady Sackville, a successful novelist and creative gardener in her own right. They are also both part of the famous Bloomsbury Group. However, five years in, their marriage is about to reach crisis point. Harold confesses to having affairs with men, but swears his only true passion is Vita. She accepts this, but when her childhood friend Violet Keppel arrives, declaring her love for Vita, the two women find themselves in an intense sexual relationship. As their affair becomes more passionate and all-consuming, the tension rises in Vita and Harold's marriage. While he is torn between his love for Vita and his hatred for her lover, she is seriously considering jettisoning her social and material status and eloping with Violet to live together in Paris...

Dramatisation of the book by Nigel Nicolson, based on his mother's diaries, relating the story of the extraordinary marriage of his parents, Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, and the special bond between them, and the events around his mother's passionate and obsessive affair with her friend Violet.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 02 October, 2007.

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