The Mayor of Casterbridge

Film Description

Ciaran Hinds (stars as the tormented Michael Henchard in this lavish adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel. One day, in a destitute and drunken state, Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a sailor at a county fair. Haunted by the memory of this betrayal, the itinerant farmhand decides to change his ways and in the process becomes a respectable, prosperous man. Twenty years later, his wife and daughter reappear on his doorstep, offering Henchard the choice of redemption or a further descent into the web of deceit and betrayal.

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• Television / Drama
• Television / Period, Costume, Historical
• Television / British