The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | |
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Genre | Period drama |
Written by |
David Nokes (dramatization) Anne Brontë (novel) |
Directed by | Mike Barker |
Starring |
Toby Stephens Tara Fitzgerald Rupert Graves |
Composer(s) | Richard G Mitchell |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 3 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
Rebecca Eaton Kevin Loader |
Producer(s) | Suzan Harrison |
Location(s) | Cumbria |
Editor(s) | Guy Bensley |
Running time | 159 minutes |
Production company(s) |
BBC WGBH |
Distributor |
BBC CBC Television (in association with) WGBH |
Release | |
Original network | BBC One |
First shown in | 17 November 1996 in UK 26 October 1997 in USA 20 September 1998 in Portugal 28 May 2006 in Hungary |
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 British television serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's novel of the same name, produced by BBC and directed by Mike Barker. The serial stars Tara Fitzgerald as Helen Graham, Rupert Graves as her abusive husband Arthur Huntington and Toby Stephens as Gilbert Markham.
A mysterious young woman arrives at Wildfell Hall, an old mansion of Elizabethan era with a young son. She determines to lead an independent existence, but her new neighbours don't want to let her alone. Only one of them, a young farmer, Gilbert Markham, succeeded in revealing her secrets.
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