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Filmed entirely in Hardy's Essex, with Alan Bates as the hero whose past rises to destroy him, this powerful production opens with the wife-sale from which this tragic tale unfolds. The Mayor of Casterbridge is rich, respected and feared, until two strangers arrive - his wife and her daughter. They set off a chain of events in which they suffer the effects of a town's ingrained prejudices and customs, and which lead inexorably to Henchard's downfall. Set in the 1840s the vivid and remarkable story that develops has made this one of Hardy's most popular novels, and makes this rich drama compulsive viewing.
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