Brand
Brand: A pastor returns to his ancestral home to find the villagers on the verge of starvation. He believes ministering to these poor people to be his calling. Over the course of time, however, he faces many difficult choices. The decisions he makes, based on his stark and idealist view of morality,...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
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[England] : Burbank, CA :
BBC Video : Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Distributed by Warner Home Video,
[2007]
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| Edition: | Fullscreen version. |
| Series: | BBC Video classics.
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| Summary: | Brand: A pastor returns to his ancestral home to find the villagers on the verge of starvation. He believes ministering to these poor people to be his calling. Over the course of time, however, he faces many difficult choices. The decisions he makes, based on his stark and idealist view of morality, have dire consequences for all the people he touches and, ultimately, for his own embattled soul. A doll's house: Nora Helmer feels suffocated and belittled in her marriage to banker Torvald. When faced with blackmail as a result of an attempt to save her husband's life, Nora decides that the only way to discover the real world is to step outside the illusions within her doll's house. |
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| Item Description: | Title from container. Based on the plays by Henrik Ibsen. Brand originally broadcast on BBC television August 11, 1959; A doll's house originally broadcast on BBC television November 21, 1992. Special feature: Radio play "Peer Gynt" (1943) starring Ralph Richardson, with popular music by Edvard Grieg. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (ca. 227 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD; Region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo.; DVD-9; NTSC. |
| ISBN: | 1419851446 (set) 9781419851445 (set) |