Beginning a four-part dramatisation of Joseph Conrad's classic novel of politics and corruption.
Starring Colin Firth, Albert Finney, Serena Scott Thomas
In the 1880s, Englishman Charles Gould returns with his young bride to his South American birthplace, where he intends to re-open a derelict silver mine.
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Nostromo 9.30pm BBC2
The mere fact that the music for this adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel was written by Ennio Morricone will indicate the size of the endeavour. Producer Fernando Ghia assembled a first-class European and Latin American cast, including 15,000 extras, for Conrad's difficult but rewarding tale of political, moral and social corruption.
Set in the fictional country of Costaguana at the turn of the century, the action revolves around Englishman Charles Gould's (Colin Firth) attempts to exploit the silver from the San Tome mine closed ten years earlier by a bloody revolution. Helping him are his wife Emilia (Serena Scott Thomas), American financier Mr Holroyd (Brian Dennehy) and the incorruptible stevedore Nostromo (Claudio Amendola). Albert Finney is magnificent as the brutalised Dr Monygham and Claudia Cardinale still stuns as innkeeper Teresa.
