The Barchester Chronicles
1982, Series, 385 min, Drama, English, United Kingdom, MoviePedia score 69
Donald Pleasence is the clergyman at the centre of a scandal.
The Barchester Chronicles is a 1982 BBC television serial produced by Jonathan Powell and dramatised by Alan Plater, based on Anthony Trollope's first two Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Warden (1855) and Barchester Towers (1857). Against the sumptuous background of Peterborough Cathedral and its environs, one is carried into Trollope's world of the intriguing machinations of the clerical establishment of Barchester. Backed by the authenticity of the period detail, the portrayal of all the characters accurately conveys the whole range of human emotions within the stories.
Directed by David Giles
Cast
- Donald Pleasence as Septimus Harding
- Janet Maw as Eleanor
- Nigel Hawthorne as Dr. Grantly
- Angela Pleasence as Mrs. Grantly
- Barbara Flynn as Mary Bold
- Clive Swift as Dr. Proudie
- Alan Rickman as Obadiah Slope
- Geraldine McEwan as Mrs. Proudie
- Susan Hampshire as La Signora Madeline Vesey Neroni
- Susan Edmonstone as Charlotte Stanhope
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