Nathaniel Hawthorne

17세기 말 영국에서 온 아름다운 헤스터 프린은 청교도주의자가 지배세력인 식민지 사회 보스턴의 작은 마을에 도착한다. 훌륭한 가문에서 태어났지만 가난한 그녀는 아버지에 의해 부유하고 늙은 의사 로저 프린과 결혼하게 되나 남편은 그녀를 사랑하지 않는다. 그러나 남편이 갑자기 습격한 인디언들에게 납치되자 헤스터는 마을 변두리의 큰 농장에 정착하면서 점점 더 엄격해지는 청교도 생활방식에 적응하지 못하는 여인들의 인도자가 된다. 헤스터의 젊고 아름다우며 현명한 생각들이 남자들에게 호기심을 불러 일으켰으나 그들의 아내에게는 질투심을 유발하게 한다. 매력적이고 야망에 찬 딤즈데일(Reverand Arthur Dimmesdale: 게리 올드만 분)은 많은 인디언들을 크리스챤으로 인도하여 교회에서 그 능력을 인정받게 된다. 그와 헤스터는 서로를 이해하는 것처럼 보이고 몸과 마음이 강한 열정으로 매료된다. 물론 헤스터는 이미 결혼한 여자지만, 외로웠고 결코 돌아오지 않을 것 같은 남편을 기다리고 있었다. 그들은 이끌리는 욕망을 절제해야 했기에 책들을 교환하고 은밀한 곳에서 밀회를 나누는 것으로 만족해야만 했다.

Based of Nathaniel Hawthorn's short story of the same name. Newly married husband leaves for the night only to discover his wife maybe a witch.

In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older stranger arrives, recognized by Hester but unknown to others as her missing husband. He poses as Chillingworth, a doctor, watching Hester and searching out the identity of her lover. His eye soon rests on Dimmesdale, a young overwrought pastor. Enmity grows between the two men; Chillingworth applies psychological pressure, and the pastor begins to crack. A ship stops in Salem, and Hester sees it as a providential refuge for her daughter, herself, and her lover. But will Dimmesdale flee with her?

Dr. Heidegger invites four of his respected friends to try out the elixir of youth.

3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.

In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.

엄격한 청교도의 도시 보스턴. 재봉사 헤스터가 안식일을 지키지 않아 벌을 받는데, 젊은 목사 딤스데일은 그녀에게 연민을 느낀다. 얼마 뒤, 소식 없는 남편을 기다리며 홀로 살던 헤스터가 아이를 낳자 마을은 발칵 뒤집히고, 간통한 죄로 그녀는 평생 가슴에 ‘A(‘adultery, 간통’의 첫 글자)’자를 달고 살라는 벌을 받는다. 그러나 그녀는 끝까지 아이의 아버지를 밝히지 않는다. 19세기 미국문학의 걸작인 호손의 『주홍글씨』를 영화화했으며, 무성영화시대 최고의 감독과 여배우가 만났다.

Goody Rickby has a child out of wedlock, but it dies when the father, Gillead Wingate, refuses to acknowledge the child or help the mother get medical aid. Wingate becomes one of the foremost figures in the witch hunts, and Goody plots her revenge with Dr. Nicholas, who is really the Devil.

The film, a swirling drama of love and death, is loosely adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1860 novel The Marble Faun. Princess Maria (Elena Sangro) is married to the Duke of Helgoland (Ugo Bazzini), the leader of an anti-government plot about to be exposed by their house guest Count Giorgio (Carlo Gualandri). Giorgio tries to involve Maria, and in his fatal fight with Helgoland, her husband is killed using the knife that Maria hands to Giorgio. Forced to flee, they meet up again in Rome, where Maria has changed her name to Myriam and Giorgio has become a monk. Giorgio still desires Myriam, who rejects his advances, and she convinces her suitor Donatello (Giorgio Fini) to kill him.

The film tells the story of a noble but poor woman who arrives at Boston in the 17th century. There she marries an old but quite rich doctor but does not become happy.

Elsie Green cannot decide which of her two suitors to marry. When she reads Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Feathertop", she dreams that she is its heroine Polly Goodkin, and this leads to her final decision.

Poor Hester Prynne finds herself most unwelcome in England.

"The Scarlet Letter" is a story of early Puritan days in New England. Hester, a beautiful young Englishwoman, is sent to America by her husband, with a promise that he will follow on the next ship. But he falls to keep his promise and Hester does not hear from him in years. In the meantime she is befriended by a young Puritan minister. Friendship ripens into love and Hester, thinking her husband dead, loves the handsome young clergyman with her whole heart. But when the baby is born the minister, fearing the wrath of the Pilgrim Fathers, denies it and Hester is condemned to wear the Scarlet Letter and to stand in the pillory. And it is only after several years of Hester's shame and ignominy that the little child finally reaches the father's heart. Then comes the great scene. The minister, on a fête day, ascends the pillory, places himself where Hester had been placed, and publicly proclaims his sin.

A story of Puritan village life. The son of a minister wins a girl away from her devoted fisherman. Orphaned, she is adopted by the minister, and when her child is born refuses to reveal the father's name. She is cast out by the minister and scorned by the people. When her child is dying the fisherman comes back to her with unfaltering love, and the minister's son meets a tragic death at the hands of the Indians.