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Polanski filmed Hardy's tragic tale of fate and hypocrisy in Normandy to evoke the lost countryside of Hardy's Wessex. Kinski is coolly irresistible as the wronged woman.

 

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Director Roman Polanski
Starring Nastassia Kinski, Peter Firth

 

Genre Contemporary Film

 

Country France / UK Language ENGLISH   Year 1980

 

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Certificate PG   Length 164 mins   Label UCA
Cat No C8253633   Format DVD   Colour
Region2   Aspect 2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen

 

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