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A heavy epic about Etienne Lantier's determination to end the terrible working conditions of the miners in 19th Century France. Along the way he rouses them to strike and incurs the wrath of the powerful mine-owners who are determined to stop him. Depardieu is excellent, as usual, and this adaptation of Zola's novel looks superb.
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NORTH AND SOUTH DISC 1 (2004)
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A powerful adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's feisty and passionate love story, set across the social divides in the changing world of Victorian industrial society. Margaret Hale is one of literature's most original heroines, a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of purpose and passion are a match for her own pride and wilfulness. When the wor
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NORTH AND SOUTH DISC 2 (2004)
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A powerful adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's feisty and passionate love story, set across the social divides in the changing world of Victorian industrial society. Margaret Hale is one of literature's most original heroines: a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of purpose and passion are a match for her own pride and wilfulness. When the wor
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