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The Citadel (1983)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 500 min.
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The Citadel is a 1983 BBC television adaptation written by Don Shaw from A. J. Cronin's novel The Citadel, which was originally published in 1937. It was produced by Ken Riddington. Other television versions include a British and two Italian adaptations.
The BBC dramatisation stars Ben Cross as Dr. Andrew Manson and Clare Higgins as Christine Manson. It was broadcast in the US from November 1983 until January 1984 by PBS television as part of Masterpiece Theatre.
Style:
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public health, poverty, social realism, class conflict, literary, medicine, quarantine, labor, union, strike, economist, handicapped, miner, scotsman, ambition, husband wife relationship, tuberculosis, idealist, mining town, dead wife, medical research, trial, disease, court, doctors
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
wales, england
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