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Director: |
David Giles
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Starring: |
Eric Porter, Kenneth More, Susan Hampshire, John Welsh, Margaret Tyzack, Lana Morris
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Genres: |
Television, Drama Classics, Epics, Great Literature on Film, Period Drama, Romantic Drama
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Origin: |
United Kingdom
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Certificate: |
PG
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Languages: |
English
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Running Time: |
200 min
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VOLUME 1:
As the story begins it is 1879, and talk in the opulent drawing rooms of London's upper middle class society revolves around the Forsytes. Winifred's marriage to the roguish Monty Dartie has the Forsyte aunts cooing, as do Jo's extra-marital exploits with his daughter's Austrian governess.
Jo's cousin, the coldly calculating Soames Forsyte, has meanwhile met Irene Heron, and the scene is set for a tempestuous future, where beauty clashes with possessiveness, and the results smoulder dangerously beneath the tinderbox of high Victorian morality and repressed passion.
VOLUME 2:
To the clatter of hansom cabs on London's cobbled streets, the story of the Forsytes unfurls.
Soames Forsyte persuades the beautiful but distant Irene to marry him, though on one rather strange condition, and from the start their marriage is totally devoid of warmth and communication; Jo is at last free to marry his mistress, Helene; and his daughter, June, becomes engaged to a bohemian young architect who threatens to bring another strain of unpredictability to the Forsyte family, challenging its established preoccupations of money and property.
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