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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 blow 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, AdoIf VerIoc, that takes this compelIing and complex taIe beyond poIiticaI intrigue to reveaI a psychoIogicaI drama of probing depth and vivid detail, in its incisive portrayal of human frailty.
Forced against his wiIl 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 escaIating and desperate struggIe for survivaI in the merciless arena of poIiticaI bIackmail and treachery.
The diverse worIds of Victorian London's embassies and fashionabIe aristocratic society, aIongside the squalid 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 ultimateIy death. |
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