The gravy train / a Portman production for Channel Four ; written by Malcolm Bradbury ; produced by Philip Hinchcliffe, Ian Warren ; directed by David Tucker, James Cellan Jones.
Publisher:
Distributed by BFS Video,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
4 videodiscs (approximately 420 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Ian Richardson, Christoph Waltz, Francesca Annis, Alexei Sayle. Filmed on location in England, Austria, Germany, Hungary and Belgium. The gravy train originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 1990 ; The gravy train goes East originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 1991. Special features: Cast profiles.
Contents:
Discs 1-2: The gravy train -- Discs 3-4: The gravy train goes East.
Summary:
Like fish bait cast into a pool of sharks, idealistic Dorfmann arrives in Brussels with visions of a united Europe to serve an ambitious British Director of the European Economic Community, Michael Spearpoint. Planning to get rich exploiting the newly-liberated nations of Eastern Europe, wily bureaucrats and entrepreneurs compete to misuse the naìˆve Dorfmann, dubbed "Prince Stupid," for their own ends. Easily deceived (especially by beautiful women!), Dorfmann instead stumbles along, crisscrossing foes, drawing fire and sparking mayhem in a comically woven web of intrigue and misadventure.
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