Sharpe's Challenge DVD 2006 Sharpe - Indiai Küldetés / Directed by Tom Clegg / Starring: Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Toby Stephens, Padma Lakshmi / BBC

UPC 5996473001802

REGION 2 PAL DVD 

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

Total Runtime: 136 minutes

English Summary:

Sharpe's Challenge is a British TV film from 2006, usually shown in two parts, which is part of an ITV series based on Bernard Cornwell's historical fiction novels about the British soldier Richard Sharpe during the Napoleonic Wars. Contrary to most parts of the TV series, Sharpe's Challenge, as well as the follow-up Sharpe's Peril, is not based entirely on one of Cornwell's novels, but it uses and adapts some characters and storylines from Sharpe's Tiger (1997).

The film starts with a flashback to 1803 in India, where Sergeant Sharpe (Sean Bean) leads a patrol to an East India Company outpost. He arrives shortly before another supposedly friendly group of soldiers led by Major William Dodd (Toby Stephens). In a treacherous surprise attack, Dodd's men kill almost the entire garrison and makes off with the payroll. However, Sharpe is only wounded and survives by playing dead.

Fourteen years later, in 1817 after his wife Lucille died of fever, Lieutenant Colonel Richard Sharpe, now a farmer in France, is summoned to London by his former commander, the Duke of Wellington (Hugh Fraser), and asked to undertake one more mission for him: to find a man in India. The missing agent was trying to learn the identity of a turncoat officer advising a rebellious Maratha rajah. Sharpe refuses, unwilling to press his luck any further, until he learns that the agent is his old comrade in arms and best friend, Patrick Harper (Daragh O'Malley).

Sharpe sets out for India. On his way to report to General Burroughs (Peter Symonds), he passes a group of soldiers escorting Celia Burroughs (Lucy Brown), the general's daughter. After a short conversation with her, he rides on ahead. He is soon attacked by marauders, but is rescued by Patrick Harper, who shows up just in time.

Hungarian Summary:

Két évvel azután, hogy Wellington hercege diadalt aratott Waterloonál Napóleon fölött, egy Indiai Maharadzsa angol területeket fenyeget seregeivel. Wellington Sharpe-t küldi, hogy derítse ki mi történik Indiában valójában. Amikor a tábornok gyönyörű lányát elrabolja a kegyetlen indiai hadúr, Sharpe nem tehet mást mint hogy követi a nyomokat és besétál az ellenség által irányított veszélyes vidékre. Az ellenséges területek mélyén számtalan veszéllyel dacolva, Sharpe-nak szembe kell néznie és ellent kell állnia még a szépséges kormányzó Madhuvanti csábításának is, ami az egyik legveszélyesebb erőpróbának ígérkezik amivel életében szembenézett.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Sean Bean – Richard Sharpe
• Daragh O'Malley – Patrick Harper
• Toby Stephens – Major William Dodd
• Padma Lakshmi – Madhuvanthi
• Aurélien Recoing – Gudin
• Lucy Brown – Celia Burroughs
• Michael Cochrane – General Sir Henry Simmerson
• Alyy Khan – Mohan Singh
• Hugh Fraser – Duke of Wellington
• Peter-Hugo Daly – Sergeant Shadrach Bickerstaff
• Graham McTavish – McCrae
• Thierry Hancisse – Bonnet
• Karan Panthaky – Khande Rao
• Nicholas Blane – Crosby
• Michael Elwyn – Rawlinson
• Diana Perez – Ramona Harper
• Peter Symonds – Burroughs
• Lex Shrapnel – Lawrence