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Crime & Punishment - The Complete Miniseries
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0ur opinion:Description:Experience the gripping tale of pride, remorse, and redemption set among the 19th-century Russian working class in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Two-time Academy Award®-nominee John Hurt stars in this moving BBC dramatization that brings to life the classic story of an antihero doomed by his misguided sense of intellectual moral authority. A former student with fierce and rational intellect, Raskolnikov feels that he is above the law and even capable of shedding blood ...
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A Married Man
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0ur opinion:Description:Hopkins’ award-winning genius for creating characters delivers again in his taut, intelligent portrayal of John Strickland – a man caught in a web of lies, seduction, moral deception and ultimately shattering violence.Schemes feed on discontent. Murder feeds on deception.John Strickland feels trapped in both a marriage and career that no longer feed or fulfill him. He finds himself falling between the bed-sheets of a rich, beautiful and politically connected young woman – a ...
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
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0ur opinion:Description:ln an upper-class Victorian boarding school, a loveable schoolboy suffers at the hands of a vicious bully and is inspired by a forward-thinking headmaster. This Masterpiece Theatre classic is a fascinating portrait of the times and a heartwarming story of courage and friendship. Though a son of privilege in a rigidly class-conscious society, Tom Brown is a born egalitarian. What he learns at the famous Rugby School is that breeding really does determine ...
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