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Tess

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama, Romance
Release Date:January 1, 1979
Running time:171 minutes
Cast:Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson, John Collin, Rosemary Martin
Director:Roman Polanski
Writer:Gérard Brach, Roman Polanski

Description: In Roman Polanski's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Nastassja Kinski plays Tess, a poor British peasant girl sent to live with her distant and wealthy relatives, the D'Urbervilles. Though Tess' father had hoped that the girl would be permitted a portion of the D'Urberville riches, he is in for a major disappointment: Tess' new housemates are not D'Urbervilles at all, but a social-climbing family that has bought the name. Tess won three Oscars, including a Best Cinematography statuette for the late Geoffrey Unsworth and his successor Ghislain Cloquet. The film also served to catapult Nastassja Kinski to stardom.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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