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Release Date: 1979

Cast: John Bett, Brigid Erin Bates, Nastassja Kinski, Leigh Lawson, Tom Chadbon, Rosemary Martin, Tony Church, Peter Firth, John Collin, Jeanne Biras

Categories: Movies, Indie, Tragedy, Romance Film, Drama Film, Period Piece, Melodrama, Romantic Drama, Film Adaptation, Crime Fiction

Tess is a 1979 romance film directed by Roman Polanski, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles. It tells the story of a strong-willed, young peasant girl who finds out she has title connections by way of her old aristocratic surname and who is raped by her wealthy cousin, whose right to the family title may not be as strong as he claims. The screenplay was by Gérard Brach, John Brownjohn, and Roman Polanski. The story takes place in rural Dorset, England, during the Victorian period. Its events are set in motion innocently enough when a clergyman, Parson... MORE

Tess is a 1979 romance film directed by Roman Polanski, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles. It tells the story of a strong-willed, young peasant girl who finds out she has title connections by way of her old aristocratic surname and who is raped by her wealthy cousin, whose right to the family title may not be as strong as he claims. The screenplay was by Gérard Brach, John Brownjohn, and Roman Polanski. The story takes place in rural Dorset, England, during the Victorian period. Its events are set in motion innocently enough when a clergyman, Parson Tringham, has a conversation with a simple farmer, John Durbeyfield. Tringham is a local historian; in the course of his research, he has discovered that the "Durbeyfields" are actually descended from the d'Urbervilles, a noble family whose lineage extends to the time of William the Conqueror. It is useless knowledge, really, as the family lost its land and prestige when the male heirs died out. The parson merely thinks Durbeyfield might like to know his origins as a passing historical curiosity. Unfortunately, Durbeyfield immediately becomes fixated upon the idea of regaining his lost nobility, and LESS