アンジェラの灰 (1999)
ジャンル : ドラマ
上映時間 : 2時間 25分
演出 : Alan Parker
脚本 : Laura Jones, Alan Parker
シノプシス
ピュリッツァー賞を受賞したベスト・セラーをアラン・パーカーが映画化。30年代のアイルランド、貧しい時代の生きた少年フランクの実話に世界中の人が涙。
Hans Fallada tells in his published after the war novel "The drinker" the story of the agricultural wholesaler Erwin Sommer, who flees from his narrow bourgeois relations under the burdens of the new times in the kingdom of the king alcohol, whose liberty and independence promises prove a lie - the only truth of the alcohol. On behalf of the WDR television play Ulrich Plenzdorf has adapted Fallada's 1944/45 novel for a film adaptation by Tom Toelle with Harald Juhnke in the main role of Erwin Sommer.
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その日、フィロミナは50年間隠し続けてきた秘密を娘のジェーンに打ち明けた。1952年、アイルランド。10代で未婚のまま妊娠したフィロミナは家を追い出され、修道院に入れられる。そこでフィロミナは男の子を出産するが、彼が3歳になったある日、修道院は金銭と引き換えに息子を養子に出してしまう。以後50年間、我が子のことを想いつづけた母のために、元エリート記者マーティンは息子捜しを助けることに。全く住む世界の違う2人の旅が始まる―。
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