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Middlemarch (1994)
Directed by Anthony Page
Overview
A BBC dramatization of George Eliot’s classic novel about the lives and loves of a group of people living on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution in a small town named Middlemarch. These include young Doctor Lydgate, who arrives at Middlemarch hospital full of idealism and determined to do good works; Dorothea Brooke, who becomes attracted to the scholarly Edward Casaubon and then finds herself trapped in an ill-fated marriage; and Will Ladislaw, a young lad who awakens Dorothea’s repressed passion and thereby changes the course of her life.
Length 375 minutes
Actors
Julian Wadham | Patrick Malahide | Simon Chandler | Rufus Sewell | Juliet Aubrey | Clive Russell | Robert Hardy | Trevyn McDowell | Jonathan Firth | Roger Milner | Douglas Hodge | Peter Jeffrey | Stephen Moore | Ronald Hines | Caroline Harker | Rosemary Martin | Fred Pearson | Patti Love | Jacqueline Tong | Elizabeth Spriggs | Cheryl Fergison | James Garbutt | Gabrielle Lloyd | Rachel Power | Colum Convey | Mary Hanefey