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Jun 3, 2020 · A classic tale of one woman's struggle for freedom and love. Lawyer Wakem takes away the mill on the river Floss from Edward Tulliver, whose ancestors owned it for 300 years, and becomes the...
The Mill on the Floss: Directed by Tim Whelan. With Frank Lawton, Victoria Hopper, Griffith Jones, Geraldine Fitzgerald. Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
The story was adapted as a film, The Mill on the Floss, in 1937, and as a BBC series in 1978 starring Christopher Blake, Pippa Guard, Judy Cornwell, Ray Smith and Anton Lesser. In 1994, Helen Edmundson adapted the book for the stage, in a production performed by Shared Experience .
Lawyer Wakem takes the mill on the river Floss away from Edward Tulliver (whose ancestors have owned it for 300 years) and becomes the worst enemy of Tulliver's family. When Edward's daughter, Maggie, grows up, she falls in love with Wakem's son Philip. However, her brother Tom (true to the memory of their father) forbids her to meet him again.
The Mill on the Floss. A feud between a Briton and the barrister who takes his mill shapes their children's (Emily Watson, Ifan Meredith) future.
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Film Details. Brief Synopsis. Read More. Adaptation of George Eliot's novel, published in 1860, portraying the efforts of Maggie Tulliver to adapt to her provincial world. Her brother Tom, who forbids her to associate with the one person who appreciates her intelligence and imagination, renounces her when she's caught in a compromising pos.
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