The Mayor of Casterbridge DVD
Starring Ciarán Hinds, Jodhi May, James Purefoy, Juliet Aubrey, Polly Walker, Jean Marsh, Clive Russell, Solomon Longways, David Bradley, Annette Badland
Directed by David Thacker
DVD
Description
British drama based on the novel by Thomas Hardy. Farm worker Michael Henchard (Ciarán Hinds) is travelling with his family in search of work when, in a fit of drunken madness, he auctions off both his wife Susan (Juliet Aubrey) and their baby daughter to a sailor.
Years later, Henchard has become the mayor of Casterbridge and when his wife and her daughter Elizabeth Jane (Jodhi May) re-enter his life, his reaction to their return sets a disastrous chain of events in motion.
