Tess / Pathé! ; a coproduction of Renn Productions (France)/Burrill Productions (United Kingdom) ; screenplay by Gérard Brach, Roman Polanski, John Brownjohn ; produced by Claude Berri ; directed by Roman Polanski.

An adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and reven...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Tess (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors: Pathé cinéma (France) (Production company)
Renn Productions (Production company)
Burrill Productions (Production company)
Criterion Collection (Firm) (Film distributor)
Other Authors: Polanski, Roman (Film director, Screenwriter)
Brach, Gérard (Screenwriter)
Brownjohn, John (Screenwriter)
Kinski, Nastassja, 1960- (Actor)
Firth, Peter, 1953- (Actor)
Lawson, Leigh, 1945- (Actor)
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
Bragg, Melvyn, 1939- (interviewer (expression))
MacCabe, Colin (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Language and/or Writing System:
Subtitled for the deaf or hard of hearing.
Published: [Irvington, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
Edition:Director-approved special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 697.
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Physical Description:1 videodisc (171 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc

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