Description
Jane Eyre DVD 1996 / Directed by Franco Zeffirelli / Starring: William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Joan Plowright, Anna Paquin, Geraldine Chaplin, Billie Whitelaw, Maria Schneider
UPC 5999544560871 / 5999016344275 / IPH 4035
REGION 2 PAL DVD
MADE IN HUNGARY
AUDIO: Hungarian 5.1, English 2.0
SUBTITLES: Hungarian
Total Runtime: 108 minutes
English Summary:
Jane Eyre is a 1996 American, British, French and Italian romantic epic and dramatic feature film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre. This Hollywood version, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, is similar to the original novel, although it compresses and eliminates most of the plot in the last quarter of the book (the running away, the trials and tribulations, new found relations, and new job) to condense it into a 2-hour movie.
Jane Eyre (portrayed as the orphan child by Anna Paquin and as an adult by Charlotte Gainsbourg) is the plain, impoverished young woman who is hired by Mr. Rochester (William Hurt) through Mrs. Fairfax (Joan Plowright) to work as a governess for Adèle (Josephine Serre). Despite her mild unprepossessing manner more like a nun, Jane has strong internal passions and shows her strength in character in expressing her opinions and showing resolve in times of trouble. Rochester is the Byronic anti-hero who is tortured and tormented by family troubles, past injustices and secrets. Rochester and Jane find an affinity for each other and fall in love and the marriage date is set. What she does not realize is that she must share the estate (and ultimately Mr. Rochester) with his wife, Bertha (Maria Schneider), who is mentally ill and kept locked away in an upstairs attic with a nurse, Grace Poole (Billie Whitelaw).
Hungarian Summary:
Jane Eyre okos, tehetséges jóravaló lány, akit azonban a sors szeszélye folytán árvaságra jutva nagynénje kénytelen nevelni egy ideig. A kedves rokon ugyanis büntetésből egy szigorú, kőkemény leányiskolába, a lowoodi árvaházba küldi Jane-t, ahol aztán az ott elképzelhető összes megaláztatást végigszenvedve kell tanulnia.
Évek múltán a lélekben már réges-régen felnőtté cseperedett Jane elhagyja az iskolát és tanítói oklevéllel a hóna alatt Thornfieldbe, egy gazdag földbirtokos, Rochester házába szegődik, hogy annak törvénytelen lánya, Adele mellett legyen nevelőnő.
Bár Rochester ideje nagy részét baljóslatú hangulatot sugárzó otthonától távol tölti, egy idő után mégis vonzalom alakul ki közte és Jane között. Furcsa kapcsolatuk addig erősödik, míg végül a zárkózott Rochester megkéri a nevelőnő kezét, ám az utolsó pillanatban Jane számára eddig rejtve maradt, szörnyű titokról libben le a fátyol...
A romantikus irodalom egyik legismertebb szerzőjének generációkat szórakoztató művét Franco Zeffirelli érzelemgazdag, kifinomult stílusban, remek jellemábrázolással vitte át a könyvlapokról a filmvászonra.
Cast / Szereplők:
- Charlotte Gainsbourg as Jane EyreWilliam Hurt as Edward Fairfax Rochester
- Fiona Shaw as Mrs. Reed
- John Wood as Mr. Brocklehurst
- Geraldine Chaplin as Miss Scatcherd
- Amanda Root as Miss Temple
- Leanne Rowe as Helen Burns
- Richard Warwick as John
- Joan Plowright as Mrs. Fairfax
- Judith Parker as Leah
- Josephine Serre as Adèle Varens
- Billie Whitelaw...Grace Poole
- Elle Macpherson as Blanche Ingram
- Julian Fellowes as Colonel Dent
- Edward de Souza as Richard Mason
- Peter Woodthorpe as Briggs
- Ralph Nossek as Reverend Wood
- Maria Schneider as Bertha Mason
- Samuel West as St. John Rivers
- Charlotte Attenborough as Mary Rivers
Directed by | Franco Zeffirelli |
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Produced by | Dyson Lovell |
Written by | Hugh Whitemore Franco Zeffirelli |
Based on | Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë |
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Music by | Claudio Capponi Alessio Vlad |
Cinematography | David Watkin |
Edited by | Richard Marden |
Distributed by | Miramax Films (US) Guild Film Distribution (UK) |
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108 minutes |
Country | France Italy United Kingdom United States |
Language | English French |