GORMENGHAST BD ( Gormenghast )

GORMENGHAST BD (Blu-Ray) (*)

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

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
000 min

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Actors:
Celia Imrie ..... Lady Gertrude
Jonathan Rhys Meyers ..... Steerpike
Warren Mitchell ..... Barquentine
John Sessions ..... Dr. Prunesquallor
Neve McIntosh ..... Lady Fuchsia
Christopher Lee ..... Flay
Fiona Shaw ..... Irma Prunesquallor
Zoë Wanamaker ..... Clarice Groan
Lynsey Baxter ..... Cora Groan
George Antoni ..... Bookman
June Brown ..... Nannie Slagg
Sean Hughes ..... Poet
Ian Richardson ..... Lord Groan
Stephen Fry ..... Professor Bellgrove
Richard Griffiths ..... Swelter
Eric Sykes ..... Mollocks
Windsor Davies ..... Rottcodd
Olga Sosnovska ..... Keda
Andrew Robertson ..... Titus
Cameron Powrie ..... Titus
Daniela Zocchi ..... Wild Girl
Tim Barlow ..... Boatman
Lewis Rose ..... Doggit
Mark Williams ..... Professor Perch
James Dreyfus ..... Professor Fluke
Phil Cornwell ..... Professor Shred
Steve Pemberton ..... Professor Mule
Martin Clunes ..... Professor Flower
Spike Milligan ..... De'Ath
Gregor Fisher ..... The Fly
Caroline Nelson ..... Wild Girl
Nathanael Hopkins-Smith ..... Kitchen Boy
Stefan Pejic
Martin Behrman ..... Kitchen Boy

Synopsis:

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In crumbling Gormenghast castle, young Titus is born to Earl Sepulchrave and Countess Gertrude. Kitchen boy Steerpike rises through castle ranks while Titus grows up resenting the rigid traditions of his ancestral home.

Gormenghast is an ancient city-state which primarily consists of a rambling and crumbling castle. The narrative, based on the first two of the three Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake, begins with the birth of a son, Titus, to the 76th Earl, Sepulchrave Groan, and Countess Gertrude. This mismatched pair (he'd prefer the melancholy privacy of his library; she'd prefer the company of her menagerie of cats and birds) also have a teenaged daughter, Fuchsia, who resents her new brother but comes to love him dearly. Simultaneously, a young kitchen apprentice, Steerpike, takes advantage of an altercation between head cook Swelter and the Earl's manservant, Mr. Flay, and escapes from the kitchens. Gormenghast is rigidly feudal in structure, but Steerpike has ambitions. He befriends the imaginative, yearning Fuchsia, and through her becomes apprenticed to the castle physician, Dr. Prunesquallor, who lives with his man-hunting sister Irma. This position allows Steerpike to work his way into the favour of the Earl's discontented twin sisters, Cora and Clarice, who feel displaced by Gertrude. The Earl's library mysteriously burns during a family gathering there, and subsequently the Earl goes fatally mad, and Steerpike gains a position with the castle's Master of Ritual. As Titus grows into childhood then adolescence, he chafes at the restrictions of Gormenghast's ritual-bound way of life and seeks ways of escape. He grows to resent and despise the ever-more ambitious Steerpike, who is gradually pursuing Titus's beloved sister Fuchsia. When Steerpike becomes Master of Ritual himself (although he's scarred for life in the fire that kills his predecessor), Titus decides he's had enough. But significant acts of treachery, which he discovers with the help of faithful Mr. Flay and the doctor (whose sister meanwhile has snagged the Gormenghast schoolmaster), force Titus's hand, and Steerpike must run, and fight, for his life, over the rooftops of a Gormenghast flooded by torrential rains.

Television drama, using the original drawings of Mervyn Peake, based on the
GORMENGHAST trilogy and animated by computer technology. Simultaneously,
the production company, AMG, will produce an interactive drama on CD-ROM. (Synopsis)

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 06 February, 2026.