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Orpheus Descending is a american film of genre Drama directed by Peter Hall released in USA on 1 june 1990 with Vanessa Redgrave

Orpheus Descending (1990)

Orpheus Descending
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Released in USA 1 june 1990
Length 1h57
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating65% 3.2884653.2884653.2884653.2884653.288465

Orpheus Descending is a 1990 American television film starring Vanessa Redgrave and directed by Peter Hall. It is an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play-of-the-same-name. Hall had directed Redgrave in an acclaimed Broadway production of the play a year earlier. The stage actors such as Redgrave, Kevin Anderson and Brad Sullivan reprised their roles for the film.

Synopsis

Lady Torrance (Redgrave) is introduced as a disillusioned character, her Sicilian father was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and she's been trapped in a miserable marriage for twenty years. Her tyrannical and bigoted husband is struck down by cancer. Then Lady Torrance meets the orpheuse, a young man named Val Xavier (Kevin Anderson), an Elvis Presley-inspired drifter. A romantic entanglement ensues as Lady Torrance puts behind the misery of marriage behind her and finds passion and happiness with Val.

Actors

Vanessa Redgrave

(Lady Torrance)Kevin Anderson

(Val Xavier)Brad Sullivan

(Jabe Torrance)Anne Twomey

(Carol Cutrere)Michael Emerson

(Clown)
And :
Miriam Margolyes
Marcia Lewis
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