Oliver Twist DVD 2007 Twist Olivér / BBC TV film / Directed by Coky Giedroyc / Starring: William Miller, Ruby Bentall, Rob Brydon

UPC 5999545586450

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

SUBTITLES: English, Hungarian

Total Runtime: 172 minutes

English Summary:

Oliver Twist is a 2007 British television adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1838 novel Oliver Twist, written by Sarah Phelps and directed by Coky Giedroyc. It consists of five episodes, broadcast on BBC One from 18 to 22 December 2007. It aired on PBS' Masterpiece Classic in the United States on 15 and 22 February 2009, in two ninety-minute installments. In Australia, ABC1 also opted to air this series as a two-part special each Sunday at 8:30 pm from 20 December 2009. 

The adaptation makes several major alterations to the plot of the source material, which include both alterations of events as well as familial relationships.

Rose Maylie is living with Mr Brownlow, and she addresses him as "uncle", but explains that he is in fact her guardian who took her and her sister, Agnes, in when her mother died. Her sister has been missing for many years, and the search for her has been ongoing. Mr Brownlow is now a part of the overall family tree, since Edward Monks is made his grandchild. As in the book, Monks becomes aware that Oliver is his half-brother, born to the missing Agnes who had a relationship with his father, and seeks to end his life so that there is no competition to his inheritance. As a result, Oliver is ultimately revealed to be Mr Brownlow's grandchild, in addition to being Rose's nephew and Monks' half-brother, as in the novel. Unlike the book, however, Monks is not an unattractive, nervous and cowardly epileptic, but a scheming, manipulative and attractive cad seeking engagement to Rose, who clearly doesn't like him.

Hungarian Summary:

Észak-Anglia, 1825: a fiatal Agnes Fleming belehal a szülésbe és fia, Twist Olivér árvaházba kerül, ahol a felcseperedett fiút kemény munkára fogják. Olivérnek egyetlen emléke maradt anyjáról: egy arany medál, amelyet gyámja ígérete szerint 12 éves korában megkap. Egy nappal születésnapja előtt azonban fellázad a kegyetlen bánásmód ellen és ezért kikergetik az intézetből. Oliver azonban az éj leple alatt visszalopódzik az intézetbe, megkaparintja az ékszert és nekiindul, hogy fényt derítsen saját múltjára. London utcáin éhesen, magányosan kóborolva gyerektársaságba keveredik és így ismerkedik meg a zsebtolvajok királyával Faginnel, aki őt is kitanítja a mesterség minden csínjára. Fagin egyik társa, a gonosz lelkű bűnöző, Bill Sikes. Az ő társaságában Oliver megismerkedik a melegszívű Nancy-vel, aki maga is árva lévén, megérti a kisfiú minden fájdalmát és gondját. Hiába azonban minden szeretet, amelyet Nancy Olivernek adhat, a fiúnak egy napon ki kell mennie az utcára, hogy végrehajtsa Fagin és Bill Sikes parancsait.

Cast / Szereplők:

• William Miller as Oliver Twist, on orphan with a deep desire to find out who his mother was
• Timothy Spall as Fagin, a Jewish fence who looks after and mentors a gang of boy thieves
• Edward Fox as Mr. Brownlow, a taciturn but kindly old gentleman who takes Oliver in
• Adam Arnold as The Artful Dodger, Fagin's most adept pickpocket
• Julian Rhind-Tutt as Monks, a.k.a. Edward Brownlow, Mr. Brownlow's grandson
• Tom Hardy as Bill Sikes, a brutish career criminal.
• Sophie Okonedo as Nancy, Bill's lover and a fellow criminal
• Morven Christie as Rose Maylie
• Gregor Fisher as Mr. Bumble, the parish beadle at Mudfog Workhouse
• Sarah Lancashire as Mrs Corney, the matron of Mudfog Workhouse
• Anna Massey as Mrs Bedwin, Mr Brownlow's housekeeper
• Nicola Walker as Sally, a trustee of Mudfog Workhouse who was midwife at Oliver's birth
• Rob Brydon as Mr Fang, a cruel magistrate
• John Sessions as Mr Sowerberry, an undertaker
• Michelle Gomez as Mrs Sowerberry, Mr Sowberberry's shrewish and hat-obsessed wife
• Adam Gillen as Noah Claypole, an apprentice of Mr Sowerberry who bullies Oliver to assert his self-perceived superiority
• Ruby Bentall as Charlotte, the Sowerberrys' maidservant
• Vincent Franklin as Mr Limbkins, the head of the board of well-fed, hypocritical, upper-class administrators of the workhouse
• Connor Catchpole as Pearly, a member of Fagin's gang of thieves and the Dodger's rival; named ironically on account of his bad teeth
• Edward Tudor-Pole as Mr Slipsby
• Callum Higgins as Spike, a member of Fagin's gang
• Reece Dos-Santos as Stick, a member of Fagin's gang
• Niall O'Mara as Handles, a member of Fagin's gang named for his big ears.
• Peter Kirkham as a boy at the Mudfog Workhouse who serves with Oliver, who is beaten for desperately eating the oakum he is tasked with weaving due to the children of the workhouse being underfed