The story of the six terrible last years as he worked desperately to repay the mountain of debts that came from the collapse of his publishing house. On the eve of the bicentenary of his death this dramatised documentary, which was filmed mainly at the Scott family mansion of Abbotsford, tells through his own words from his journals and letters of the crash from the peaks of fame as the world's first great popular novelist, through the years of adversity to his exhausted death in 1832.
starring Robert Urquhart as Sir Walter Scott
and members of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club

(from Scotland)
(Colour)