Scarlet and Black DVD 1993 Vörös és Fekete / Directed by Ben Bolt / Starring: Ewan McGregor, Rachel Weisz, Alice Krige, Christopher Fulford / Based on novel by A. Stendhal

UPC 5999545586399

MADE IN HUNGARY

REGION 2 PAL DVD 

Audio: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

Subtitles: English, Hungarian

Total runtime: 234 minutes

English Summary:

Scarlet and Black is a British four-part television drama series first aired in 1993 on BBC 1 by the BBC with a cast including Ewan McGregor and Rachel Weisz. The series was adapted by Stephen Lowe from the novel The Red and the Black (1830) by French writer Stendhal. The story follows an ambitious, but impoverished young man, who seduces women of high social standing in order to improve his prospects; an Icarus of the post-Napoleonic era.

The series is a faithful adaptation of the novel Le Rouge et le Noir and is condensed into four episodes, each 50 minutes in length. A notable addition to the plot is the figure of Napoleon, which the protagonist, Julien Sorel, envisages during the main turning points of the story. Napoleon represents Julien's ambition in the serial, he compares himself with the French hero, seeing himself as an extraordinary individual.

Le Rouge et le Noir (French pronunciation: ​[lə ʁuʒ e l(ə) nwaʁ]; meaning The Red and the Black) is a historical psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in 1830. It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and hypocrisy. He ultimately allows his passions to betray him.

The novel's full title, Le Rouge et le Noir: Chronique du XIX^e siècle (The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century), indicates its twofold literary purpose as both a psychological portrait of the romantic protagonist, Julien Sorel, and an analytic, sociological satire of the French social order under the Bourbon Restoration (1814–30). In English, Le Rouge et le Noir is variously translated as Red and Black, Scarlet and Black, and The Red and the Black, without the subtitle.

The title is taken to refer to the tension between the clerical (black) and secular (red)^[4] interests of the protagonist, but this interpretation is but one of many.

Hungarian Summary:

Julien Sorel, az egyszerű sorból jött ambíciózus fiú Chelan abbé ajánlásával házitanítói álláshoz jut a Renal családnál. A harmincéves gyönyörű Madame de Renal előbb barátságot, majd egyre inkább végzetes szerelmet érez a fiatalember iránt. Julien, bár maga is megszereti az asszonyt, csupán ugródeszkának használja őt. Amikor egyik gyermeke megbetegszik, Madame de Renal ezt az ég büntetésének tekinti. Kapcsolatuk egyre veszélyesebbé válik. Julien katonai szemináriumba megy, majd De la Mole márki titkáraként vállal állást...

Cast / Szereplők:

• Ewan McGregor - Julien Sorel
• Martin Jarvis - Monsieur de Rênal
• Alice Krige - Madame de Rênal
• Rachel Weisz - Mathilde de la Mole
• T. P. McKenna - Marquis de la Mole
• Jo Ross - Marquise de la Mole
• Stratford Johns - Abbé Pirard
• Clive Arrindel - Abbé de Frilair
• Christopher Fulford - Napoleon
• Michael Attwell - Monsieur Valenod
• Crispin Bonham-Carter - Comte de Croisenois
• Georges Corraface - Comte Altamira
• Edward Atterton - Comte de Beauvoisis
• Helen FitzGerald - Madame de Fervaques
• Jeremy Young - Duke of Wellington