Oliver Twist [2005 film]

by Roman Polanski (Director)

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A slightly darker version of the classic Charles Dickens tale. After living in poor conditions, Oliver runs away to the streets of London. There he meets a gang of pickpockets and soon Oliver's life is changed forever.

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In una cupa Inghilterra della prima rivoluzione industriale, Oliver Twist, orfano di entrambi i genitori, vive miseramente in uno orfanotrofio insieme ad altri ragazzini che sono nella sua stessa situazione, dove viene sfruttato e trattato in malomodo, anche quando viene trasferito all'ospizio per i più grandi. A causa del fatto che ai ragazzi viene dato poco da mangiare, è indetta fra questi ultimi una riunione per affidare a chi avesse estratto il filo di stoppa più corto, il compito di chiedere una seconda razione di cibo. Il compito tocca a Oliver, che dopo averlo eseguito, viene picchiato e portato al cospetto del Consiglio che, pur di toglierselo dai piedi, è disposto a offrire 5 sterline a chi si fosse preso Oliver Twist come show more garzone. Il primo interessato è uno spazzacamini, strano e particolare, ma Oliver Twist, impaurito, si mette a piangere in modo da non essere affidato all'uomo, avendo capito le sue non proprio benevole intenzioni. Successivamente, Bumble, il mazziere dell'orfanotrofio, grazie alle sue conoscenze, trova una sistemazione per Oliver. show less
Sfuggito dall'istituto di giovani orfani, Oliver Twist si unisce ad un gruppetto di ladruncoli. Ma al primo colpo viene arrestato dalla polizia; quella che per il ragazzo sembra una tragedia, si dimostra invece, una svolta felice, dopo che il facoltoso signor Brownlow ritira la denuncia a suo carico e lo accoglie in casa. Ma i suoi vecchi compagni non intendono rinunciare a lui.(fonte: Wikipedia)

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The French-born Polish actor and director Roman Polanski survived one of the darkest events of the twentieth century, the Holocaust. At the age of 8, he was interned in a German concentration camp, where his mother died. He later attended the Polish Film School and, with his film noir Knife in the Water (1962), helped establish the reputation of show more Polish cinema abroad. Polanski's vision is of an unstable world of violence, sexual frustration, unconscious impulses, and destructive psychoses. Repulsion (1965), his first feature in the West, and the chilling Rosemary's Baby (1968), about satanic possession in New York City, marked him as a filmmaker who was unafraid to confront evil. He was forced to confront evil in his personal life once again when his wife, Sharon Tate, was brutally murdered in 1969 by the satanic Charles Manson cult in one of California's most sensational slayings. The horror of this experience informs his filmed version of Shakespeare's Macbeth (1972). Of his later films, Chinatown (1974), the story of a private investigator's discovery of twisted relationships in the wealthy family that has hired him, was well received, as was Tess (1981), Polanski's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Oliver Twist [2005 film]
People/Characters
Oliver Twist
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London, England, UK; England, UK
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19th century; Victorian Era
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Oliver Twist (2005 | IMDb)
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PN1997.2 .O45Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)DramaMotion picturesPlays, scenarios, etc.
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