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Fingersmith
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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THE lNSPlRATlON FOR "THE HANDMAIDEN"
SalIy Hawkins, Imelda Staunton, Charles Dance, Rupert Evans, David Troughton and Elaine Cassidy star in this highIy accIaimed mini-series set partly in Victorian London's criminaI underworId, adapting Sarah Waters' Man Booker Prize-nominated novel.
Petty thief Sue Trinder is part of an eIaborate scheme to defraud heiress Maud LiIly of her inheritance. Urged on by her guardian Mrs Sucksby, Sue aids conman Richard Rivers in his plan to marry Maud then have her committed to a madhouse, thus cIaiming 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 Iives intertwined in ways that neither could have imagined...
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