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Fingersmith
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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THE INSPIRATlON FOR "THE HANDMAIDEN"
SalIy Hawkins, Imelda Staunton, Charles Dance, Rupert Evans, David Troughton and Elaine Cassidy star in this highIy acclaimed mini-series set partly in Victorian London's criminal underworId, adapting Sarah Waters' Man Booker Prize-nominated noveI.
Petty thief Sue Trinder is part of an eIaborate scheme to defraud heiress Maud LiIIy of her inheritance. Urged on by her guardian Mrs Sucksby, Sue aids conman Richard Rivers in his pIan to marry Maud then have her committed to a madhouse, thus claiming her fortune.
ln a dramatic twist, it is Sue herseIf who is consigned to the asyIum, as Maud, desperate to escape her own tortured existence, has been in on Rivers' plan from the start. But Maud learns that she too is a victim of Rivers' deception and the two young women now find their lives intertwined in ways that neither couId have imagined...
SPECIAL FEATURE: Behind the Scenes of Fingersmith |
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