The Thorn Birds DVD 1983 Tövismadarak Episodes 1 & 2 / Directed by Daryl Duke / Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Jean Simmons, Ken Howard

UPC 5999048908520

REGION 2 PAL DVD - DVD 14 Double Sided disc

MADE IN THE EU

AUDIO: English mono, German mono, Spanish mono

SUBTITLES: English, Hungarian, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Croatian, Slovenian, Czech, Greek, English HOH, German HOH

Total Runtime: 140 + 93 minutes (Double sided disc)

CONDITION OF THIS DVD IS USED - VERY GOOD!

English Summary:

The Thorn Birds is an American television miniseries broadcast on ABC from March 27 to 30, 1983. It starred Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Piper Laurie, Jean Simmons, Richard Kiley, Bryan Brown, Mare Winningham and Philip Anglim. It was directed by Daryl Duke and based on a novel of the same name by Colleen McCullough. The series was enormously successful and became the United States' second highest-rated miniseries of all time behind Roots; both series were produced by television veteran David L. Wolper.

Meghann "Meggie" Cleary, a four-year-old girl living in New Zealand in the early twentieth century, is the only daughter of Paddy, an Irish farm labourer and Fee, his harassed but aristocratic wife. Meggie is a beautiful child with curly red-gold hair but receives little coddling and must struggle to hold her own. Her favourite brother is the eldest, Frank, a rebellious young man who is unwillingly preparing himself for the blacksmith's trade. He is much shorter than his other brothers, but very strong. Unlike the other Clearys, he has black hair and eyes, believed to be inherited from his Maori great-great-grandmother.

Paddy has a wealthy sister, Mary Carson, who lives in Australia on Drogheda, an enormous sheep station. One day, Paddy receives an offer from Mary of a job on her estate.

In Drogheda, Meggie meets Ralph de Bricassart, a young, handsome, attractive, capable and ambitious priest. As punishment for insulting a bishop, he has been relegated to a remote parish in the town of Gillanbone, near Drogheda. Ralph befriended Mary, hoping a hefty bequest from her to the Catholic Church might liberate him from his exile. Ralph is "a beautiful man”. Mary goes to great lengths to see if he can be induced to break his vows. Ralph shrugs off these attentions and continues his visits. He cares for all the Clearys and cherishes forlorn little Meggie who makes him the centre of her life.

Hungarian Summary:

Egy pap, aki Isten és saját emberi érzelmei közt őrlődik. Egy lány, aki az elérhetetlenre vágyik. A népszerű Tövismadarak tévésorozat e beteljesülésre váró, tiltott szerelem krónikája. Az 50 évet felölelő szerelmi történetben vágyakkal, bosszúval, félelmekkel és szenvedéllyel teli sorsokat követhetünk végig.

Episodes on DISC:

Episode 1 - Side A

Episode 2 - Side B

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