Tess
1979 · Movie · 172 min. · United Kingdom
A rural clergyman in 19th century England tells Durbeyfield, a simple farmer, that he is descended from the illustrious d'Urberville family -- now extinct. Or maybe not. Durbeyfield sends his daughter Tess to check on a family named d'Uberville living in a manor house less than a day's carriage ride away. Alec d'Urberville is delighted to meet his beautiful cousin... and seduces her. Tess takes up the game of illusion when she finds, loses and finds again her true love.
Direction Roman Polanski
Cast Nastassja Kinski · Peter Firth · Leigh Lawson · John Collins · Richard Pearson · John Bett · Rosemary Martin · Arielle Dombasle · Tom Chadbon · Sylvia Coleridge · Jacques Mathou · Suzanna Hamilton · Keith Buckley · Tony Church · Lesley Dunlop · Jean-Jacques Daubin · Véronique Alain · Carolyn Pickles · Caroline Embling · David Markham · Pascale de Boysson
Soundtrack Philippe Sarde
Screenplay Gérard Brach · Roman Polanski · John Brownjohn · Thomas Hardy
Cinematography Geoffrey Unsworth · Ghislain Cloquet
Original title Tess
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