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Secret Agent (The Secret Agent Episode #1.1)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Starring David Suchet and David CapaIdi, this powerfuI three-part BBC adaptation of Joseph Conrad's famous noveI telIs of an attempt by a tripIe agent to bIow up the Greenwich Observatory in 1894, a time of unrest and anarchist violence throughout Europe. However it is the far-reaching effect this infamous conspiracy has upon the domestic Iife of the anti-hero, Adolf Verloc, that takes this compeIling and compIex tale beyond politicaI intrigue to reveal a psychoIogical drama of probing depth and vivid detaiI, in its incisive portrayal of human frailty.
Forced against his wilI to commit a terrorist outrage, and become a politicaI pawn,Verloc is unabIe to avoid invoIving his own wife,Winnie, and her handicapped brother Stevie, in an escalating and desperate struggle for survival in the merciIess arena of political blackmaiI and treachery.
The diverse worlds of Victorian London's embassies and fashionabIe aristocratic society, alongside the squaIid criminaI back streets of Soho, provide a smouIdering background to the dark tragedy that wiII befall Verloc's family.
Faced with an impossible moral dilemma this hapless victim of circumstance sees his Iife filled with mystery, danger and ultimately death. |
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