Vanity Fair DVD 1998 Hiúság vására / British TV Series / Directed by Marc Munden / Starring: Danielle Hawley, Paul Brightwell, Natasha Little, Sara Powell, Frances Grey, Pat Keen

UPC 5996357343103

REGION 2 PAL DVD  

MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

SUBTITLES: -

Total Runtime: 309 minutes

English Summary:

Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name broadcast in 1998. The screenplay was written by Andrew Davies.

The BBC previously adapted the novel as a serial twice before, in 1967 and in 1987.

The story is framed by its preface and coda as a puppet show taking place at a fair; the cover illustration of the serial instalments was not of the characters but of a troupe of comic actors at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park. The narrator, variously a show manager or writer, appears at times within the work itself and is somewhat unreliable,repeating a tale of gossip at second or third hand.

London, 1814. Rebecca Sharp ("Becky"), daughter of an art teacher and a French dancer, is a strong-willed, cunning, moneyless, young woman determined to make her way in society. After leaving school, Becky stays with Amelia Sedley ("Emmy"), who is a good-natured, simple-minded, young girl, of a wealthy London family. There, Becky meets the dashing and self-obsessed Captain George Osborne (Amelia's betrothed) and Amelia's brother Joseph ("Jos") Sedley, a clumsy and vainglorious but rich civil servant home from the East India Company. Hoping to marry Sedley, the richest young man she has met, Becky entices him, but she fails. George Osborne's friend Captain William Dobbin loves Amelia, but only wishes her happiness, which is centred on George.

Hungarian Summary:

A XIX. századi Angliában járunk, ahol Becky Sharp a csábító és törtető nevelőnő mindent elkövet azért, hogy egy arisztokrata, de mindenképpen gazdag férjet szerezzen magának.

Nyomon követhetjük Becky utazását a György korabeli London elegáns szalonjaitól a waterloo-i csatatérig, szerencsétlen kísérleteitől az eleve kudarcra ítélt házasságáig. Becky és legjobb barátnője, a törékeny Amelia túlélheti-e a szerelem gyötrelmeit és a történelem viszontagságait?

Cast / Szereplők:

• Natasha Little as Becky Sharp
• Frances Grey as Amelia Sedley
• David Ross as Mr. Sedley
• Philip Glenister as William Dobbin
• Michele Dotrice as Mrs. Sedley
• Janine Duvitski as Mrs. Bute Crawley
• Anton Lesser as Mr. Pitt Crawley
• Nathaniel Parker as Rawdon Crawley
• Jeremy Swift as Jos Sedley
• Tom Ward as George Osborne
• Stephen Frost as Bute Crawley
• Tim Woodward as Mr. John Osborne
• Janet Dale as Miss Briggs
• Frances Tomelty as Mrs. O'Dowd
• Mark Lambert as Major O'Dowd
• David Bradley as Sir Pitt Crawley
• John Surman as Horrocks
• Miriam Margolyes as Miss Crawley
• Daniel Hart as Ensign Stubble
• Abigail Thaw as Jane Osborne
• Bryan Pringle as Raggles
• Linal Haft as Moss
• Eleanor Bron as Lady Bareacres
• Sarah Crowden as Lady Blanche
• Graham Crowden as Lord Bareacres
• Sylvestra Le Touzel as Lady Jane Crawley
• Gerard Murphy as Lord Steyne
• Robert Cole as Little Rawdon
• Zohren Weiss as Little Georgey