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A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 416 min.
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Story:
Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatised for television.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
Plot:
world war two, love, world war one, post war, high society, rich and poor, couples, social differences, society, lifestyle, social relations, dishonesty, couple relations, power relations, nude, dancing, female nudity, adultery, fortune telling, classmate, oxford, snobbism, lifetime, british tv, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 30s
Place:
england, london, europe
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Duration: 60 min.
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
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Adaptation of Nancy Mitford's novel.
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
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In 1939 Hortense, illegitimate but intelligent and ambitious, is brought up on Jamaica with the family of charismatic, free-thinking Michael, who joins the Air Force when war breaks out and goes to England. After the war, Hortense, now a qualified ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel. The first colour production from the BBC.
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Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 780 min.
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37%
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Country: UK
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Country: UK
Duration: 350 min.
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Country: UK
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Country: UK
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Country: UK
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