1 Season
2 Episode
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Season 1 Episode 1 Part One
Michael Henchard, in a drunken rage, auctions his wife Susan and infant child to a passing seaman. Realising his folly, Henchard makes an oath to avoid alcohol for twenty-one years, prospering as a grain-trader and Mayor of Casterbridge. After eighteen years, newly widowed Susan and her grown daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, seek out an apparently changed Henchard. Partly from guilt, Henchard agrees to remarry Susan, on condition she stay silent on his past. Henchard hires a business manager, Farfrae, who quickly gains popularity, while Henchard’s dark nature resurfaces.
- Year: 2003
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- Cast: Ciarán Hinds, Juliet Aubrey, Jodhi May, James Purefoy, Alex Kelly, Polly Walker
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