The Brontës [videorecording] : three muses and their men / a film by Malgorzata Bucka, Olaf Grunert ; produced by Besta-Film, Stanisław Krzemiński for ZDF in cooperation with ARTE.
Format:
[videorecording] :
Publisher:
Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
Copyright Date:
c2000
Description:
1 videodisc (51 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Commentary, Juliet Barker. This disc has been recorded using DVD-R equipment and may not play in all DVD players or drives. Originally produced for Polish and German television in 1999.
Contents:
Father -- Heathcliff: Emily's hero -- Zamorna: the prince of Charlotte's dreams -- Constantin Héger: the professor -- Rochester: Charlotte's hero.
Summary:
Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë were a trio whose writings rocked Victorian England and yet who lived, suffered, and died far from mainstream British society. One constant of their fiction is their familial relationships, and the men--both real and invented--who loomed large in their lives: their father, Patrick; their brother, Branwell; Professor Constantin Héger; Charlotte's husband, Arthur Bell Nicholls; and Heathcliff, Zamorna, and Rochester. Featuring dramatizations, excerpts from their letters, and period illustrations, this elegiac program explores the England that they knew and portrayed with insight and compassion.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.