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Despair (1978)

Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Subject
Film studies; History; Literature

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 121 minutes), $24.95

Based on the classic novel by Vladimir Nabokov with screenplay adaptation by Tom Stoppard. In early 1930s Germany, against the backdrop of the Nazis’ rise to power, Hermann Hermann (Dirk Bogarde), a...
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Oh! What A Lovely War

Date
28 May 2014, 13:26

Author
Sergio Angelini

Post Type
BUFVC Review

Joan Littlewood’s stage production Oh! What a Lovely War has long been a favourite with students and teachers. Long unavailable on home video, Richard Attenborough’s 1968 film adaptation in now out on as...
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Schindler (1983 Video)

Director
John Blair

Subject
History

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 79 min., 1999 sale: £14.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Oskar Schindler was a Czech-German industrialist and a German spy. He was also the only German to save thousands of Jews from Hitler’s extermination camps during World War 2. This documentary of his life...
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Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

Subject
Drama

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 137 minutes), £15.99

Richard Attenborough’s celebrated 1969 film adaptation of Joan Littlewood’s musical play about the horrors of World War I. The huge cast includes Maggie Smith, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Dirk...
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Servant, The (1963)

Director
Joseph Losey

Producer
Joseph Losey; Norman Priggen

Subject
Drama; Film studies; Literature

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes), £15.99

Based on a novel by Robin Maugham, the drama is the story of a sinister manservant who insinuates himself into the life of his master and gradually reverses their respective roles. It captures the unease...
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I, Claudius (1991)

Subject
Classical studies; Media studies

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 740 minutes), £44.99

A television adaptation of two epic books by Robert Graves ("I, Claudius" and "Claudius the God"), originally broadcast in 12 parts on BBC Television in 1976 (the first part was a double-length episode)....
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Tale of Two Cities, A (1990)

Subject
English language and literature

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £9.99

A film version of the novel by Charles Dickens about romance and intrigue during the French Revolution.
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Oh! What a Lovely War (2006)

Director
Richard Attenborough

Subject
Film Studies

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 144 minutes), £15.99

A restored version of Richard Attenborough’s directorial debut film which re-interprets real First World War events as a musical. Based on the 1963 radio play written by Charles Chiltern which was adapted...
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