Middlemarch
(DVD)

DVD release of the original 1994 BBC television broadcast ; episodes 1-3 on side A (200 min.) and episodes 4-6 on side B (220 min.).

Based on the novel by George Eliot.

"BBC video classics"--Container.

Special features: Middlemarch-- a reader's guide: 40 minute featurette on the book.

Music, Stanley Myers, Christopher Gunning ; editor, Jerry Leon, Paul Tothill ; cinematography, Brian Tufano.

Juliet Aubrey, Robert Hardy, Douglas Hodge, Michael Hordern, Peter Jeffrey, Patrick Malahide, Trevyn McDowell, Rufus Sewell.

"19th century Great Britain--The Industrial Revolution brings both the promise and fear of change. In the provincial town of Middlemarch, the progressive Dorothea Brooke desperately seeks intellectual fulfillment in a male-dominated society and is driven into an unhappy marriage to the elderly scholar Casaubon. No sooner do they embark on their honeymoon than she meets and develops an instant connection with Casaubon's young cousin, Will Ladislaw. When idealistic Doctor Lydgate arrives, his new methods of medicine sweep him into a battle between conservatives and liberals in town. He quickly becomes enamored with the beautiful, privileged Rosamond Vincy, a woman whose troubles seem bound to destroy him. As Doctory Lydgate and Dorothea are drawn into the lives and intrigues of Middlemarch, the seeds are sown for a...tale of pasion, disillusionment and blackmail." --container

DVD ; widescreen (16:9) ; stereo.

Closed-captioned.