Restoration DVD 1995 Változások kora / Directed by Michael Hoffman / Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Sam Neill, Meg Ryan, David Thewlis, Polly Walker, Ian McKellen, Hugh Grant

UPC 5999551920071  / IPH 5092

REGION 2 PAL DVD 

MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

SUBTITLES: English, Hungarian

Total time: 113 minutes

English Summary:

Restoration is a 1995 American historical drama film directed by Michael Hoffman. It stars Robert Downey Jr. as a 17th-century medical student exploited by the king. The film, which is based on the novel of the same title by Rose Tremain, was filmed in Wales and won two Academy Awards.

A young doctor, Robert Merivel, enters the service of King Charles II of England after having saved the King's favorite spaniel. Merivel finds himself enjoying a life of debauched pleasure and popularity at court, until the King informs him that he has arranged for Merivel to wed Celia, the King's favorite mistress. The purpose of the arranged marriage is to fool another of the King's mistresses. Merivel is given an estate named Bidnold in Suffolk, and Celia is installed in a house in Kew where the king can visit her secretly. Merivel lives a life of debauchery there, but also finds pleasure in restoring the house to its former beauty with the support of Will Gates, the man who runs the estate. However, things become complicated when Merivel breaks the King's cardinal rule by falling in love with Celia. Elias Finn, a painter commissioned by the King to paint a portrait of Celia, tricks Merivel into revealing his romantic feelings for Celia, who does not return Merivel's affections. After finding out about Merivel's romantic feelings toward Celia, the King banishes him from court back to his life as a physician.

Merivel rejoins his old friend, John Pearce, who has opened a Quaker sanitarium. There, Merivel meets Katherine, a troubled young woman whose husband walked out on her after their daughter drowned in the river. Merivel and Katherine become lovers. Pearce falls fatally ill with consumption, and while Merivel is tending to his dying friend, they discover that Katherine is pregnant with Merivel's child. After the death of Pearce, Merivel and Katherine leave.

The pair returns to London just as the Great Plague has hit. Katherine gives birth to a daughter, Margaret, via Caesarean section, but dies in the process as there is no way to ward off infection once the body has been cut open. In her dying moments, Merivel promises Katherine that he will care for Margaret, and that he loves Katherine.

Hungarian Summary:

Robert Merivel, a tehetséges, ám túlzottan ambíciózus ifjú doktor II. Károly korabeli London szépreményű gyógyítója. Egy alkalommal királyi megbizatás szólítja el a nyomornegyedből, hogy diszkrét, ámde hatásos kúrában részesítse őfelsége titkos pártfogoltját. Merivelt szolgálata jutalmaként udvarába fogadja a különc király. A fiatalembernek tetszik a fényűző, henye élet.

Cast / Szereplők

• Robert Downey Jr. as Robert Merivel
• Sam Neill as King Charles II
• David Thewlis as John Pearce
• Polly Walker as Celia Clemence
• Meg Ryan as Katharine
• Ian McKellen as Will Gates
• Hugh Grant as Elias Finn
• Ian McDiarmid as Ambrose
• Mary MacLeod as Midwife
• Mark Letheren as Daniel
• Sandy McDade as Hannah
• Rosalind Bennett as Eleanor
• Willie Ross as Man with Visible Heart
• David Gant as Chiffinch
• Benjamin Whitrow as Merivel's Father
• Neville Watchurst as Latin Doctor
• Bryan Pringle as Watchman
• Roy Evans as Fleeing Man
• John Quarmby as The Chancellor
• John Dallimore as The Secretary
• Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Mr. Bung
• Bridie & Hannah Rees-Davies as Twin Babies