TESS (SOUS-TITRES FRANAIS)

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• Release Year: 1979
• Genre: Classic, Drama, Romance
• Plot: From The 2003 Academy Award Winning Director of The Pianist - Roman Polanski; ; Natassja Kinski stars in Academy Award winner Roman Polanski's (2993 Best Director The Pianist) critically acclaimed screen adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1891 literary masterpiece, Tess of the d'Ubervilles. A visually stunning recreation of Victorian England's lush pastoral landscapes. Tess's Academy Award winning cinematography (1980 Geoffrey Unsworth, Ghislain Cloquet, Best Cinematography) is presented in its original Panavision aspect ratio for the first time in 25 years.; ; Finding employment with the wealthy d'Urberville family, Tess (Kinski), a teenage farm girl of exceptional beauty, comes under the lustful eye of Alec (Leigh Lawson), their ne'er-do-well son. Although she rejects his amorous advances, Alec forcibly seduces Tess, leaving her pregnant and alone. Giving birth to a sickly child who soon dies, the disgraced Tess eventually falls in love with Angel (Peter Firth), a parson's son who knows nothing of her sordid past. But when she confesses her 'sin' on their wedding night, a repulsed Angel abandons her, leaving Tess no choice but to return to Alec, a fateful decision that will have tragic consequences for all concerned.
• Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson, John Collin, Rosemary Martin, Carolyn Pickles, Richard Pearson, David Markham, Pascale de Boysson, Caroline Embling, Tony Church, Lesley Dunlop, Sylvia Coleridge, Fred Bryant, Dicken Ashworth, Patsy Rowlands, John Barrett, Brigid Erin Bates, Patsy Smart, Jeanne Biras, John Bett, Tom Chadbon, Géraldine Arzul, Stephanie Treille, Elodie Warnod, Ben Reeks, Marilyne Even, Jean-Jacques Daubin, Jacob Weizbluth, Jacques Mathou, Véronique Alain, Anne Tirard, Josine Comellas, Arielle Dombasle, Gordon Richardson, Reg Dent, Jimmy Gardner, John Gill, Forbes Collins, Keith Buckley, John Moore, Graham Weston, Lina Roxa, Roman Polanski
• Director: Roman Polanski
• Runtime: 2:52
• Company: Renn Productions, Timothy Burrill Productions, Societé Française de Production (SFP), Columbia Pictures
• Media Format: Movie